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Luigi Lucioni (VT 1900-1988) Barn with wrecked Silo

Sold for $175 at Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers on Apr 24, 2026.

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Luigi Lucioni (Vermont 1900-1988) Barn with Wrecked Silo engraving on paper published by Associated American Artists - Signed lower right dated 1941- plate 6.5 x 11" 13 x 17 x 1" as framed. Lucioni studied, in succession, at Cooper Union, at the National Academy of Design, and at the Tiffany Foundation in Oyster Bay, Long Island. At the last, John Sloan, Kenneth Hayes Miller, Gifford Beal, and Childe Hassam taught classes. Success soon followed, with a show at Ferargil Galleries, the receipt of several medals, and the sale of a still life to the Metropolitan Museum. The sale, in turn, led Lucioni to Vermont and a commission from Mrs. J. Watson Webb, co-founder of the Shelburne Museum. Rural Vermont reminded him of northern Italy, but by then the two had perhaps become conflated in Lucioni's mind in a more meaningful way. The hills of Vermont struck a home chord because they also signified certain "American" values that were important to him. The act of painting rural Vermont, therefore, became a way of reinforcing those values, and, not incidentally, of marking his achievement in this country.

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