Ciro Cozzi

Ciro Cozzi was a longtime resident of Provincetown, and well known restaurateur of the famed Ciro and Sals. I had the pleasure of interviewing Ciro, a few years back and here is a clip from that interview. Ciro died on Valentine's Day  at the age of 91.

Cozzi attended the Art Student's League, studying with Frank Reilly and in Provincetown Henry Hensche.

Although Ciro was my neighbor in Provincetown, the only real dialog I had with him was in the two hour interview he gave me back in 2006. 

Cozzi spoke about Frank Reilly's class in New York has being too formulaic and detrimental to the art students own creativity.

Ciro talked about his time with Hensche, as being stifling to his own artistic journey. 

I found that I learn so much in the two hours talking to Cozzi about the process one goes through in painting.

There is no mistake that Cozzi had tremendous drawing facility and a mastery of color he had gained from both Reilly, and Hensche, not to mention his study of sculpture. 

With all this knowledge he still continued to search out his own voice and expression.