About Victor De Carlo

  • Biography from James R Bakker Antiques Inc

    Victor De Carlo was born in 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut. He developed an early interest in art and worked with other artists on WPA mural projects in Connecticut in 1938.

    After serving in the U. S. Army from 1941 through 1946, he studied with Kenneth Stubbs at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. and went to North Truro with his brother artist, Charles De Carlo to study with Jerry Farnsworth.

    After spending two years at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, he enrolled in classes at the Art Students’ League in 1949. Victor went to Italy the following year to study with Ottone Rosai at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence and painted across Europe and Africa until 1954 when he returned back to America.

    De Carlo actively exhibited and taught in Connecticut where he shared an art studio with his brother, artist Charles De Carlo in New Haven. Victor continued to travel to Provincetown during the summer months until he bought a house in Provincetown and settled there permanently in 1969.

    Victor De Carlo died in Provincetown in 1973.

    His work is represented in the collections of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum and the Provincetown Art Association & Museum among others.

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