Luigi Bosa grew up in a small town near Venice and would become a painter best known for his genre depictions, often incorporating figures within cityscapes of scenes familiar to his early upbringing. The influence of his instructor, the social-realist artist John Sloan is certainly recognizable in this work. 1920 - at 15 years of age he enrolls in the Academia delle Beau Arti, Venice. 1923 - 24 - emigrates to Canada to join his brother, then to Buffalo, New York, and finally