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PENCIL SIGNED ETCHING, LUIGI LUCIONI, 8" X 13"

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PENCIL SIGNED ETCHING, LUIGI LUCIONI, 8" X 13" Luigi LUCIONI (1900-1988) Birth place: Malante, N. Italy Death place: New York (Greenwich Village), NY Addresses: Union City, NJ, 1947; NYC, 1973/Manchester Depot, VT Profession: Painter, etcher Studied: priv. drawing classes in Jersey City; Cooper Union Evening School, 1916-20; NAD, 1920-25; also with William Starkweather, 1918-25. Tiffany Fnd. scholarship, 1928 (Italy) Exhibited: PAFA Ann., 1928-44; All. A. Am., 1929; WMAA, 1932-41; CI., 1936 (prize), 1939 (prize); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1928-53; LOC, 1946; NAD, 1957 (purchase prize); Milch Gal., NYC, 1970s; TMA; Herron AIC; Carnegie Inst.; AIC; Venice Biennale, Italy; Richard York Gal., NYC (still lifes) 1991 Member: A.N.A.; Southern Vermont Artists; SAE. Work: MMA ("Pears with Pewter"); WMAA ("Two Willows & Jo"); CI ("Vermont Pastoral"); PAFA; LOC; TMA; Denver Art Mus.; SAM; BM; Victoria & Albert Mus., London; High Mus., Atlanta, GA; FMA; Hamilton Col.; AGAA; Nebraska State Capitol, Lincoln; Kansas City Mus.; RISD; Library, Canajoharie, NY; Dartmouth; Lawrence AM, Williamstown, MA; Shelburne (VT) Mus. Comments: Best known for his realist still lifes, yet he also produced many landscape etchings. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1911 and settled in North Bergen, NJ, and had a studio in Washington Square in NYC until 1945. Teaching: portrait painting, ASL. Sources: WW73; WW47; listed in WW25 as Louis J. Lucioni; "The Art of Luigi Lucioni" (film), Vermont Educ. TV, 1968, shown throughout the US, 1969-72; Muller, Paintings and Drawings at the Shelburne Museum, 89-90 (w/repros.); Falk, Exh. Record Series.

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