Neuhaus spent most of his deployment in various locations throughout Iraq in Support of Operation Inherent Resolve the U.S.
He was deployed on active duty orders from November of last year until late June, serving with the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force. Navy Reserves as a Lieutenant Commander, assigned to a Naval Special Operations Team.
The County Executive has previously given American flags flown over Camp Keating to others who generously donated to troops while he was overseas, including the Orange County Chamber of Commerce, the Fraternal Order of Police Jason Conklin Memorial Lodge 957 in Monroe, Tom Urtz, ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc.’s Vice President of Operations and Alad Seidman, Executive Director of the Construction Contractors Association of the Hudson Valley. Neuhaus also presented Assante with a certificate signed by the Commanding Officer of Camp Keating, U.S. Camp Keating is named after Navy SEAL Charles Keating, who was killed in 2016 in Mosul. the flag had been flown over Camp Keating, Neuhaus’ base in Baghdad, Iraq during his deployment earlier this year.Īssante, an Orange County resident, was one of several community members who sent Neuhaus and other troops from Orange County stationed in the Middle East care packages during their tours. Neuhaus presented acclaimed actor Armand Assante with an American flag on Wednesday, October 9th. Armand Assante passed away in August 25, 2017.Goshen, N.Y. His work has been represented by SPQR Fine Art. His work has been shown at the Benedetti Gallery in SOHO in Manhattan, Eisenhower Hall at West Point and the Lyceum Theater in Sugar Loaf, among others. The Assantes moved to Mountainville that year, and their third child Andrea, (physical therapist) was born in 1959.Īrmand was an often celebrated artist both in New York and in the Hudson Valley, exhibiting most recently at the Karpeles Gallery in Newburgh. of Star Expansion Industries in Mountainville, NY, invited Armand to become the Senior Advertising Executive for his company. The young couple lived in Washington Heights with their first two children, Denise (singer and actress) and Armand (stage and screen actor) until 1957, when Ralph Ogden, Sr. His wife Katharine, a pianist and poet, taught music in the Monroe -Woodbury and Highland Falls School Districts.Īfter the war he married Katharine Healy, a pianist and music teacher, on June 28, 1947. Armand lives on the side of a mountain in Cornwall. He has exhibited in New York, including two one man shows at West Point’s Eisenhower Hall and the Benedetti Gallery. He made many drawings of Japanese and Chinese peasants.During the post war Armand entered the advertising field, and despite holding various creative and managerial posts and later his own advertising service he managed to paint on weekends. Marine Corp in the South Asia, Pacific and China operations, (with his sketching materials always handy in his knapsack). Landau was a profound influence on the young painter’s development.ĭuring the World War II Armand served with the U.S. By his teens he had caught the attention of artists such as Norman Rockwell and the German post-impressionist painter, Hubert Landau, a noted German born painter, (a friend of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke), who came here as a refugee to escape the Nazis in l937.
He was, in his youth, a prodigious artist who excelled masterfully in drawing, painting and draftsmanship. Born to Elizabeth di Giovanni and Aniello Armand on Augin Rye, NY, Armand was raised in Washington Heights, NY with his large Italian family.
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