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12-1-1931 Born into Italian Family, South Philadelphia
July 1954 Married, moved to apartment on Pine Street, Center City
1956 Moved to South Philiadelphia into Wilson Park Housing Projects
1-26 – 2-23-1958
153rd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Oil Paintings and Sculpture (sponsored
by Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in collaboration with Detroit Institute of Arts)
October – 11-15-1958 Arnold Finkel Gallery, Group Show
4-3 – 4-29-1959 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Watercolorists: 18 to 30
1-31 – 3-8-1959 Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2nd Philadelphia Arts Festival
10-16 – 10-28-1959 Panama Gallery, One-Man-Show
1960 Da Vinci Restaurant Gallery, One-Man-Show
5-8 – 5-21-1960 Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Nineteenth Annual Exhibition (Da Vinci Art Alliance)
Annually, early sixties 29th Ritten House Square Clothesline Exhibits
Early sixties Everyman's Gallery, Philadelphia Art Alliance (Philadelphia Art Alliance)
5-7 – 5-21-1961 Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Twentieth Annual Exhibition (Da Vinci Art Alliance)
6-14 – 7-5-1961 Socrates Perakis Gallery, One-Man-Show
4-3-1962 Longfellow-Metropolitan Lodge, One-Man-Show (Sons of Italy)
Summer 1962, 1963 Family vacations in Maine
March-1963 Towne Gallery, One-Man-Show
3-1963 ART in FOCUS, write-up by Dorothy Grafly
24-11 – 12-7-1963 Towne Gallery, One-Man-Show
1964 Main Line Center of the Arts, Exhibition
Sixties Group Holiday Shows
1967 Move from Wilson Park Housing Projects to Point Breeze Ave
10-6 – 11-6-1967 Brad-Ford Gallery, One-Man-Show
8-17-1970 Daily News, “Luigi the Artist”, article by Tom Fox
5-21-1972 Belmont, Philadelphia, Outdoor Exhibition, One-Man-Show
May 1977 Provident National Bank, One-Man-Show
1979 Move to Center City, Philadelphia
1987 Move to Fishtown, Philadelphia
December 1988 Philadelphia Magazine, “La Bohème”, article by Peggy Morgan
5-16-2004 Memorial Exhibit, Kensington, Philadelphia