🐻 Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri framed lithograph of bear in woods 2003. Artist Signed

Original signature added to lithograph. Purchased directly from his son. Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri, one of the world’s best-recognized and most successful sculptors and artists, died in 2020. He was 88 years old. Born on Nov. 25, 1931, in Los Ángeles, California, Lorenzo was the son of an Italian sculptor father and a French artist mother. He grew up in a world of ethnic blends that enriched his understanding of world culture. After receiving formal art training, he continued, on his own, to study the Old Masters. At the age of 17, he was awarded a prestigious art scholarship. A giant of a man in stature, talent and personality, he joined the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict and was assigned to the USS Lowry. Though a formidable marksman, after winning his ship’s logo contest with his sketch of a tiger jaw-locked onto a torpedo, the ship’s commander suggested he be assigned as a combat illustrator, and continued his training in the U.S. Naval School of Architecture & Design in Oxnard, California. When he was only 20, he was working on national accounts. And by age 22 he was commissioned to paint what became a gift from the United States to Great Britain for the coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II. Building his career, Lorenzo continued painting and began receiving numerous commissions for his original oil paintings, drawings, and sculptures.