About the Artist and the Company
Antonio Caparello was born November 23, 1953 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the son of Italian immigrants.
At a very young age Tony demonstrated natural artistic ability. At the age of fifteen he was invited to the studio of the great American artist, Norman Rockwell, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Rockwell, praising Tony’s talent, sent the teenager to study further with the impressionist painter, William J. Schultz, in Lenox, Massachusetts. Tony also studied with other masters including John Howard Sanden, oils, and Daniel Greene, oils and pastels.
In 1979 Tony began what was to become a nine year career as a pictorial artist for major billboard companies throughout the southeastern United States. He quickly became a top painter,specializing in photo-realism and portraiture. His crowning achievement was to be recognized as one of the premier pictorial artist in the advertising industry, prompting his employers to state that Tony’s natural ability and reputation as an artist in the industry was “second to none”!
Tony’s work came to the attention of world renowned artist, James Rosenquist, who along with Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol founded the “Pop Art” movement in the early sixties. In July of 1988 Tony resigned from outdoor advertising and began working with Rosenquist as a painter and studio assistant.
In August 1998, Tony submitted his resignation to Rosenquist, and on October 30, 1998 went on to the next phase of his professional career. Tony painted in his studio located in Spring Hill, Florida. Since 1990, Tony’s exhibits have included many solo, two person, and group exhibitions in galleries, art museums, colleges, universities and art centers. He has also done numerous classes, workshops, seminars and public demonstrations teaching his painting technique. His paintings are in many private, corporate and public collections throughout the United States and abroad. Tony's most public work is the civil war “Brooksville Raid” mural in downtown Brooksville, Florida, 87 feet wide and 18 feet tall.
Antonio “Tony” Caparello died on January 9, 2009 after open heart surgery in Clearwater, Florida.
Caparello Creations, LLC is a family owned and operated company out of Spring Hill, Florida. The company consists of the artists wife Heidi Caparello, and his two daughters Katrina Caparello-Barr and Lisa Little.
It was the artist, Tony Caparello’s vision to be able to create artwork that was affordable, without having to sacrifice the beauty of his art. Days before his passing, the plans to start producing Giclée/Reproductions came about. Tony saw this as not only a means to help his family once he was gone, but also a way to carry on the legacy of his artwork.
Our goal at Caparello Creations LLC is to carry out the wishes of the man we loved and adored, as well as keep his legacy alive through the production and sale of top quality Giclée/Reproductions.
