Gianni Cilfone

Gianni Cilfone (1908–1992) was an Italian American artiste who emigrated to Chicago at the age of 5 and difficult studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Cilforne studied below Hugh Breckenridge and John F. Carlson and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon, the North Shore Art Association, the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The player traveled the midwest giving lectures and painting demonstrations and is remembered for his impressionistic right of entry to midwest landscape.

For 30 years, he had a studio at 5 E. Ontario St. in Chicago where he taught, lectured and gave demonstrations. Later, he moved his studio to 119 Meacham Ave. in Park Ridge and continued there for 20 more years. Teaching took going on most of his vibrancy from 1934 until he suffered a achievement in July 1985. Mr. Cilfone's awards from the Municipal Art League were for landscape painting. He held many supplementary prizes and awards, and his works are in private collections in the U.S., France, Holland, Italy and Canada. He was basically a realist but tried to put into his decree the best of the futuristic styles.

Cilfone and his wife, Irene, went to Nashville, Indiana in the prematurely winter of 1947, according to Frank M. Hohenberger's article in The Indianapolis Star of June 6, 1948 and took up address in the studio formerly occupied by Will Vawter, artist. The Cilfones met similar to Curry Bohm, artist, at Gloucester, Massachusetts the last summer and were invited to visit Brown County, Indiana. From a quote in the Chicago Tribune Magazine by Gianni Cilfone, "Nobody will think me unfamiliar for wise saying that Nashville, Ind. is my favorite midwestern town, but I can foresee a great many astonished looks behind I go upon to acknowledge that winter is my favorite season there. Yes, I have been in Nashville at extra times of year, I used to breathing there in fact." Several of his paintings are of Brown County scenes.

1. Chicago Tribune, May 14, 1992 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-14-9202120586-story.html
2. Chicago Tribune Magazine, February 28, 1954, page 10