Giuliano Cucco
The artist at work in his studio across the years! Photos supplied Giovanni Cucco, the artist’s son.
Giuliano Cucco (1929–2006) was a gifted, versatile artist who has remained little known even in his native Italy. This may be because he was so carried away by his own creativity that he never got around to, or had the patience for, promoting himself. In addition to making many oil paintings, Cucco mastered photography, sculpture, pastels, and poetry. He drew both satirical cartoons of the clergy and evocative pen and ink drawings of the Gospels. The publication of the thirty oil paintings that guide the story in Before I Grew Up may be viewed as the first major public appearance of Cucco’s work.
Cucco and his wife were killed by a motor scooter driver in a pedestrian crossing in Rome in 2006. He is survived by a son and two grandchildren.
“A 50-year-long publishing saga with several serendipitous turns,” Cucco’s creative collaboration with American writer John Miller is chronicled in THIS wonderful Publisher’s Weekly story! ✨
TITLES
Winston & George
Red Spider Hero