Luigi Lucioni
American, born Italy, 1900 - 1988Vermont Pastoral, 1939
Not on view
Etching on paper
Dimensions9 5/8 × 14 11/16 in. (24.4 × 37.3 cm)
Image: 7 3/8 × 11 11/16 in. (18.7 × 29.7 cm)
Gift of Dolores Hargraves, 2008.329
The son of a coppersmith, Luigi Lucioni was born in 1900, in a small, northern town in Italy. As a child he manifested an ability to draw and was sent to a local art school. When he was ten years old, Lucioni came to the United States with his family. Five years later he was studying art in night classes at Cooper Union. Before he was twenty, Lucioni, who supported himself as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines in New York, enrolled at the National Academy of Design. After studying at the National Academy of Art, he purchased a farmhouse and converted the barn into his studio. The Vermont landscape, with its barns, silos, and trees, captivated the artist, and he portrayed it in his paintings and etchings with respect and admiration.
