Tony Green was born in Naples, Italy in 1954. His family soon moved to the United States, settling in Louisiana on New Orleans' West Bank where Green spent his childhood. Green began his studies in Washington, D.C. at the Corcoran School of Art*. For the next few years, he continued to travel and study all over the world, leaving his home in New Orleans and planting the seeds of his gypsy lifestyle.

In 1982 Green returned to his native Italy to paint, establishing an annual tradition that has continued up until today. Green spends each summer in the city of Venice, capturing on canvas the romance of the city, its people and its historic canals. The artist also has absorbed, through his European travels, a great appreciation of past ...