Vermont Hills, 1930

Provenance

The artist

Ferargil Galleries, New York, New York, acquired from above

Private collection, Delaware

Sale, Bunch Auctions, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, September 12, 2023, lot 30665

Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above

Related Works

Vermont Landscape, 1930, oil on canvas, 18⅛ x 26⅛ inches; Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, New York

Village of Stowe, Vermont, 1931, oil on canvas, 23½ x 33½ inches; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota

Note: Vermont became a significant location for Luigi Lucioni. As is described in the book Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory, “Rural Vermont reminded [Lucioni] of northern Italy […] 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.”_[1]

_[1] William H. Truettner and Roger B. Stein, eds, Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory (Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1999), 217.