Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)
Luigi Lucioni was born in Malnate, Italy, in 1900 and is a well-respected artist known for the photographic realism of his landscapes and still life paintings. Lucioni immigrated to the United States from Italy in 1911. He studied art at Cooper Union, and at the National Academy of Design under William Auerbach Levy.
A prolific etcher, the linear approach to this technique solidified has crisp, realistic style in painting. Lucioni taught at the Art Student’s League in New York, but spent several months a year in Stowe, Vermont, and was in fact dubbed “Artist Laureate of Vermont” by Life magazine.
The recipient of many awards, in 1932 Lucioni was the first contemporary American artist to have a painting purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.