Rene Guarneri di Rosa^[1]

1919 - 2010  (91 years)

• Name	Rene Guarneri di Rosa
  Birth	14 May 1919	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Oct 2010	Napa county, California
  Burial	St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri   [3]
  Person ID	I5792	Scudder
  Last Modified	12 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Gustavo Guarneri di Rosa,   b. 18 Oct 1878, Rome, Italy d. 27 Jan 1954, Santa Barbara, Ventura, California (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Maude Cupples Scudder,   b. 7 Jan 1891, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri d. 20 Jul 1994, Napa, Sonoma, California (Age 103 years)
  Marriage	10 Apr 1915	St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri   [4]
  Family ID	F82	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Janine Cressaty,   b. 1924, Paris, France d. 23 Apr 2006, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	7 Aug 1950	Ile Brehat, France
  Divorce	Abt 1956
  Family ID	F2028	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	C.A. Rose
  Family ID	F2029	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 3	Veronica C. Pridham,   b. Abt 1934, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada d. 1991, Normandy, France (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	20 Jul 1976	Napa county, California   [5]
  Family ID	F21324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  After studying at Yale, where he served as the editor of the Yale Daily News, Rene served with the U.S. Navy. He later moved to Paris to write. Although failing to write the great American novel, he did develop an appreciation for art. He returned to San Francisco where he bought land in wine country. The grapes produced by his vineyard were well-respected and he sold the planted portion of his land at a huge profit. He lived on the property with his second wife Canadian-born painter and sculptor Veronica McDonald. (His first wife had ended their marriage and returned to Paris when they moved to California.) The di Rosas expanded their art collection and formed the Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation in 1982. The grounds of the vineyard were opened to the public in 1997 and currently offer a year-round program of changing exhibits, lectures, educational programs and nature walks. Di Rosa served on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Advisory Board of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He received an honorary doctorate from the San Francisco Art Institute.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Genealogy of Descendants of Jacob Scudder T-2-3-7-Partial and Descendants of Peter Scudder T-2-3-11, Bulletin XXVIII, p. 16. [S1278] Massachusetts, Birth Index, 1901-1960, 1967-1970. [S1329] Find a Grave Index, 1600s to Current. [S267] Letter, Roberta Kloos to Chris Scudder. [S1143] California Marriage Index, 1960-1985.