Luigi Lucioni etching The Big Haystack

Description: Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900-1988)The Big Haystack etching, pencil signed l.r. sheet measures approximately: 16 1/8" W x 12 1/8" Hmat measures approximately: 17 7/8" W x 14 1/4" H Please note that shipping charges are inclusive of insurance, payment processing and carrier fees. About Luigi Lucioni Luigi Lucioni was an Italian-born American painter. He lived and worked mainly in New York City, but also spent time working in Vermont. His still lifes, landscapes, and portraits were known for their realism, precisely drawn forms and smooth paint surface. Like many of his fellow Regionalists, his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. In 1915, he won a competition which allowed him to attend The Cooper Union. Luigi Lucioni had his first one-man show in New York in 1927 at the Ferargil Galleries. He was still in his mid-twenties and within a short time won recognition, primarily through his still-life painting, as one of this country's most adept and successful artists. During the Depression, when other artists, especially the young and unestablished, found it extremely difficult to earn a living from their art, Lucioni could not produce his exquisitely composed, meticulously finished canvases quickly enough to satisfy the demand. Private collectors and public institutions across the country, including the Fogg Art Museum and the San Diego Museum of Art, acquired examples of his work, often while they were still hanging on the walls of his gallery in New York. Featured in group shows from Dallas to Milwaukee and Memphis, Lucioni cultivated and maintained a truly national reputation. In 1932, Lucioni had his first one-man show in Boston and scored a tremendous coup when The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased his luminous Dahlias and Apples. Suddenly, Lucioni's name was in the headlines of the art pages. "This is believed to be the first time an artist of Lucioni's years has been represented at the Metropolitan," it was reported in the New York Herald Tribune. "Painted with realistic skill and a modern feeling for composition, it is viewed as a characteristic and excellent work of the young painter." Early in January of the following year Henry McBride, art critic for the New York Sun, found the crowd attending the opening of Lucioni's show at the Ferargil Galleries, which also handled the work of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, "quite formidable." he then went on to note with obvious admiration and pleasure: "There is no success quite like Mr. Lucioni's. It is both painting and personal. The people see the pictures, are enraptured with them and say he is exactly as they thought he must be and then they buy several. It is very delightful and quite as it should be. The pity is there is only one Mr. Lucioni in this town." Later that season a still life by Lucioni could be seen in the Whitney Museum's First Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. The son of a coppersmith, Luigi Lucioni was born on November 4, 1900 in Malante, a small town in northern Italy. As a child he manifested a precocious ability to draw and was sent to the local art school. When he was ten years old, Lucioni came to the United States with his family, and 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, was enrolled at the National Academy of Design. Friends remember the artist as a simple, modest, down-to-earth man, and this aspect of his personality seems to be reflected in his art with its emphasis on clarity and unhesitant outline. An avid opera fan, Lucioni was friendly with the most famous stars of his day, including Lily Pons. Genial and gregarious, he was also acquainted with many well-known actors and actresses, Ethel Waters, Tallulah Bankhead, Henry Fonda, and Tyrone Power among them. As Henry McBride pointed out, Lucioni's success seemed to derive equally from his personality and his art. Critics compared his artistry to that of Jan Van Eyck and Holbein; some saw in his work a distinctly American parallel to the Neue Sachlichkeit artist of contemporary Germany. Hailed by McBride as "the most popular painter that this country has produced since the time of Gilbert Stuart. With very little experimentation he has found a style which apparently fulfills all his pictorial needs. It is a sort of sublimated realism; natural forms are reproduced with marvelous accuracy, bathed in pellucid atmosphere." mbr3.2

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Location: Chicago, Illinois

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