Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980, New York) was an American painter. Born in New York City, he applied an American Regionalist aesthetic to his Italian community in East Harlem. He began his arts education at the age of 12, when he became the first pupil of fellow Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton. After three of his paintings were exhibited in a 1930 group show curated by Alfred Steiglitz, he began a long career exhibiting in biennials and gallery exhibitions. During the New Deal, he was commissioned by the WPA to paint several murals in Queens. Celentano’s works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.