As an American multi-genre visual artist, Albert Pucci's works have been honored with awards from the National Academy of Design and National Audubon Society and have been featured in exhibitions and galleries, including the National Academy and The Brooklyn Museum as well as private and corporate collections throughout the world.
Primarily a painter and illustrator, his prolific output contains works of realism, illustration, book cover art, textile design and what has been described as "romantic cubism".
Styles & Mediums
Pucci’s prolific work included Neo Realism, Renaissance and Cubism styles, using various mediums including oil, charcoal, watercolor, textiles and tempera.
His voluminous and strikingly beautiful landscapes, streetscapes, still life’s and portraiture’s encompass themes from light-hearted and joyous to moody and melancholy, frequently depicting locales such as Italy, New York City and coastal Maine.
Commercial Art
Pucci excelled in the field of commercial art, creating numerous book covers for major publishers such as Signet, Dell, Houghton Mifflin, Washington Square Press and Mentor Books which were featured on works of classic authors such as Shakespeare, Bronte, Melville, Tennyson and Twain.
He also was regularly commissioned for magazine illustrations and received accolades for his popular postcard illustrations.
Education
Pucci studied at the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts and then attended the Pratt Institute, where he worked as an instructor in figure drawing, and layout and design for 24 years.
Exhibitions and Collections
In 1954, Pucci’s first one-artist Exhibition was held at the Associated American Artists Galleries in Manhattan, New York. He would go on to exhibit at numerous galleries, shows and exhibitions throughout New York, Washington, Connecticut and Maine.
Notable exhibitions of Pucci’s work included the National Academy and The Brooklyn Museum.
His work has been featured in various permanent collections, including the Thayer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas and the Wausau Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin as well as corporate collections of companies such as MetLife, Nabisco, Pfizer, Lehman Brothers, Abbot Laboratories, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.
Personal
Pucci was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 11, 1920. As a young child, his family relocated to Brooklyn, New York where we would reside in Brooklyn Heights for the next 80 years. He was married to his wife Gora for over 50 years, with whom he had three children and six grandchildren. He died on May 30, 2005.
