ACHILLO (ARCHI) SULLO Colorful Abstract Original Painting on Canvas

Achillo Sullo, known as “Achi”, was a first-generation Italian born in Boston in 1922, served four years in the Army Engineering Corps and was a WWII D-Day survivor. He began his artistic career painting camouflage patterns on Army vehicles.

Sullo, a recluse, maintained a studio in Roxbury for 30 years and never tried to sell his work as it was his personal medicine.

The small group of works we have acquired seem to be something left in an abandoned studio where time has stopped or the artist has gone out for a bite to eat….but these period works are sophisticated and reek of intelligence and originality along with an organic form of design and every time we observe them they continue to reveal themselves in a chameleon-esq manner.