Andrew Bucci

Who is Andrew Bucci?

Andrew Bucci is a Mississippi-born artist residing in Maryland.

A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Bucci was influenced early in his career by Mississippi artist and teacher Marie Atkinson Hull, with whom he began studying in the late 1930s.

Bucci graduated from St. Aloysius High School in Vicksburg in 1938 and earned a degree in architectural engineering from Louisiana State University. After college, Bucci was trained as a meteorologist and served in World War II, which allowed him to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. With a passion for painting fueled by his European experience, Bucci enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where he received a B.F.A. in 1951 and an M.F.A. in 1954. Between degrees he studied fashion illustration at Parsons School of Design.

Bucci has spent most of his career in Maryland and the Washington D.C. area, where he currently resides. He worked for the National Meteorological Center in Maryland from 1956 until his retirement in 1979. He continues to paint and produce artwork, and in more recent years, he has created a number of needlepoint reproductions of his paintings.

He has exhibited with the Society of Washington Artists and served as president of the Washington Watercolor Society.