About Andrew A Bucci Jr

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    A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Andrew Bucci was born in 1922. He studied with Mary Clare Sherwood in Vicksburg and later, in the 1930's, with Marie Hull in Jackson. He continued to paint with Hull during his undergraduate career at Louisiana State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering.

    During World War II, he was stationed in Paris, where he worked as a meteorologist, and studied at the Académie Julian. After the war, he worked in Vicksburg at the U.S. Weather Bureau until 1947, when his avocation of art became his vocation and he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute in 1952 and his Master of...

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