Robert de niro sr wikipedia

FAMILY
De Niro and Admiral surrounded themselves with an illustrious circle of friends, including writers Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, playwright Tennessee Williams, and Robert Duncan, the editor of Ritual, a literary magazine for which Virginia worked.

The couple separated shortly after their son, Robert De Niro, Jr., was born in 1943.

CAREER
During the mid-1940s De Niro burst onto the New York art scene along with a generation of prominent abstract painters.

In 1945, De Niro’s art was exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s renowned Art of This Century Gallery in New York, the leading gallery for established European modernists and the emerging Abstract Expressionists. Exhibited alongside the work of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still, critics praised DeNiro’s compositions filled with improvised areas of vibrant color that gave way to loosely painted still lifes and curvaceous nudes. 

In 1946 Peggy Guggenheim awarded De Niro his first solo show, a prestigious honor