PRESS RELEASE
Cavalier Gallery is honored to present a special exhibition of work by Bruno Lucchesi (1926–2026), beloved artist, teacher, husband, and friend. The exhibition features sculptures from various periods in Lucchesi’s illustrious career.
Join Ann Rosow-Lucchesi, Cavalier Gallery, friends and family of Bruno Lucchesi for a reception celebrating the artist’s life and work:
Wednesday, October 7
5:00–7:00pm
Cavalier Gallery
3 W 57th St., 4th floor
New York, NY 10019
“Lucchesi, the Italian-American master who died in New York at 99, weeks before his 100th birthday, devoted seven decades to this encounter between hand and matter. His loss feels immense, not simply because a distinguished artist has departed, but because a custodian of figurative tradition is gone. In many ways, he understood what others spend lifetimes trying to recover: technique is not the enemy of feeling. Mastery gives emotion somewhere to live.”
Avalon Ashley Bellos
What the hand refuses to forget: Bruno Lucchesi and the necessity of sculpture
amNY, August 19, 2026
Bruno Lucchesi's sculptures are held in many of the world's leading museums and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York, amongst others, and numerous universities, churches, and civic institutions throughout the United States and Europe.
His career was marked by countless honors, including two Honorary Doctorate Degrees of Fine Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Sculpture Society's Medal of Honor for Achievement in and Encouragement of American Sculpture, the Portrait Society of America's Gold Medal for Lifelong Achievement, multiple Gold Medals from the National Academy of Design and from National Sculpture Society, New York City Italian Cultural Society Lion of San Marco Art Award, and from the Cities of Lucca, Florence, Camaiore, and Pietrasanta, Italy.