In 1955, he met and married his wife, Marilyn Jean and had a daughter and a son, Dawn Zammitt Crandall and Eric Zammitt, both artists today. to finish his service, on a base in Colorado, his work was as a draftsman. In his off duty hours he continued painting including a mural at an orphanage there, of Christ with Korean children.
In his one-year tour of duty in Korea, he did aerial reconnaissance photography. The Korean war interrupted his education with his enlistment into the Air Force in 1952 and assigned as a photographer. He moved on to Pasadena City College where his talent again was recognized and he was advised to pursue the commercial art field. His talent in both classic and cartoon art won him national, regional and scholastic awards during his high school years. His skill at cartooning carried on through high school, at both El Monte and Rosemead where he developed comic strip characters for the schools’ newspapers. He was also taken by animation, Disney films, drawing the characters and making up his own. Lawrence River from Montreal for four years then to Montreal, then to Buffalo New York, and on to settle in Southern California at age 14 in the San Gabriel Valley.ĭrawing was a consistent pursuit throughout Zammitt's childhood, ignited further, at age 12, by his first sight of an oil painting by a Dutch artist in a gallery window. When he was 7 years old, the family moved to the Caughnawaga Reservation across the St.
His mother was Mohawk of the Iroquois Nation and his father, Italian from Palermo, Sicily. Norman Charles Zammitt was born on February 3, 1931, in Toronto, Canada. Norman Charles Zammitt (Febru– November 16, 2007) was an American artist in Southern California who was at the leading edge of the Light and Space Movement, pioneering with his transparent sculptures in the early 1960s, followed in the 1970s by his large scale luminous color paintings. MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, 1961 Norman Zammitt headshot by Victoria Mihich
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