(Italian-Am.)

Born 1900, Malnate, Northern Italy - near the Swiss border.
Died 1988, Greenwich Village, New York City.

While best known for his realistic style still life paintings, Lucioni was an accomplished etcher and produced many landscape etchings. The attention to detail in his paintings is also present in the etchings.

He arrived in the United States with his family at age 11, in 1911. The family settled in Union City, New Jersey where his father found work as a cooper. By 1915 he was studying art at Cooper Union, the National Academy in 1920 and with the help of a Tiffany Scholarship he returned to Italy in the mid 1920’s to study the art of architecture of his native land. A few of his etchings are studies and scenes from Italy, such as “Romantic Ruins”.

Back in the US, he began exhibiting in 1928 in Philadelphia, at the Corcoran and other galleries and museums as time when on. He won several prizes in 1939 and 1941 for his portrait work. He maintained a Studio in the Washington Square area of New York until 1945. In summers, beginning in 1929, he went to New England especially to Vermont and Connecticut. Many of his etched landscapes are pastoral landscapes from these areas, frequently featuring a group of trees or a single large tree as the focal point of the work. The detail is marvelous. In 1939 he bought an old farm with a barn near Manchester Depot and turned the barn into a studio.

He was a member of the Society of American Etchers, the Southern Vermont Artists and and associate of the National Academy and also taught at the Art Students League.