1900 - 1988
Lucioni immigrated to the United States with his family in 1911 and settled in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he grew up. He studied nights at the Cooper Union (1916-1920) while working days for an engraving house. He continued at the National Academy of Design (1920-25) and in the etching class until 1927. He also studied at the Art Students League and spent nine summers at the Tiffany Foundation school at Oyster Bay, Long Island. In 1924 he won the Tiffany Foundation Fellowship which enabled him to go to Italy where he studied the Italian primitives. By 1925 he was doing portrait illustrations for the New York Herald Tribune. He had his first one man show at Ferargil Gallery in 1927 and won the Tiffany Medal in 1928 and the Allied Artists Medal of Honor in 1929.
Lucioni painted landscapes, still-lifes, and portraits. He began as an impressionist, came under the influence of Cezanne, but it was his later development as a super-realist which led to his immense popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. While his still- lives and landscapes, which were executed in Stowe, Vermont, where he summered after 1930, have received the highest acclaim from critics, it was for his portraits that he won the popular prizes at the Corcoran Biennial and at the Carnegie International Exhibitions.
A retrospective of Lucioini's work was held in 1968 at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont; and in 1976 an exhibition of his etchings was held at Associated American Artists.
Lucioni painted landscapes, still-lifes, and portraits. He began as an impressionist, came under the influence of Cezanne, but it was his later development as a super-realist which led to his immense popularity in the 1930s and 1940s. While his still- lives and landscapes, which were executed in Stowe, Vermont, where he summered after 1930, have received the highest acclaim from critics, it was for his portraits that he won the popular prizes at the Corcoran Biennial and at the Carnegie International Exhibitions.
A retrospective of Lucioini's work was held in 1968 at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont; and in 1976 an exhibition of his etchings was held at Associated American Artists.
