Gianni Cilfone was an Italian American

Italian American

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 artist

Artist

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 who emigrated to Chicago

Chicago

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 at the age of 5 and later studied at the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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. Cilforne studied under Hugh Breckenridge and John F. Carlson and exhibited at the Hoosier Salon

Hoosier Salon

The Hoosier Salon is a non-profit arts organization that was founded in 1925 by a group called the Daughters of Indiana. That year, the Salon hosted an exhibit in the galleries of the Marshall Field and Company Building in Chicago featuring Indiana artists such as T.C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams and...

, the North Shore Art Association

North Shore Art Association

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, the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist traveled the midwest giving lectures and painting demonstrations and is remembered for his impressionistic

Impressionism

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approach to midwest landscape.

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