Bucci, Andrew A. (American, 1922-) Oil Painting. “Seated Figure”. Oil on canvas. Signed lower left “Bucci,” as well as on reverse. In good condition. Measures 14” x 11”. Frame measures 14 ” x 12”.

From Askart.com: A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Andrew Bucci was born in 1922. He studied with Mary Clare Sherwood in Vicksburg and later, in the 1930's, with Marie Hull in Jackson. He continued to paint with Hull during his undergraduate career at Louisiana State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering. During World War II, he was stationed in Paris, where he worked as a meteorologist, and studied at the Acadmie Julian. After the war, he worked in Vicksburg at the U.S. Weather Bureau until 1947, when his avocation of art became his vocation and he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute in 1952 and his Master of Fine Arts two years later. Washington D.C. has been home for Bucci for several decades, and where he has exhibited with the Society of Washington Artists, at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. He also has remained active in Mississippi and in the southeast. He is represented by galleries in Jackson and in New Orleans, and his work is widely collected by private individuals and by museums, including the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; the Brooks Memorial Gallery, Memphis; Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi; Florence Art Gallery, South Carolina; the Mississippi Museum of Art; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. On February 26, 2009, Governor Haley Barbour presented Bucci with the 2009 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts for Lifetime Achievement. In 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters.

coleprattgallery.com/artistworks.php?artistId=1013&artistName=Andrew+Bucci: Originally from Vicksburg, Mississippi, Andrew Bucci's (1922-2014) paintings are deeply rooted in the themes of Abstract Expressionism. He employs color and line to create masterful abstractions of both figures and landscape. Drawn from his life experiences in the modern South, Bucci's work cannot be limited by one category of abstraction. His paintings are bursts of pure color and graceful lines; they are fresh, uplifting, and energetic.