DON CINCONE
ARTIST DON CINCONE is a man with such breadth of knowledge and experience it can’t be captured in a single conversation or a couple thousand words, which is why he’s working on a two-volume memoir about his life. Born in Alto, Louisiana, a small, unincorporated community in Richland Parish, Cincone has traveled the world, served in the U.S. Army, spent time on the east coast and the West Coast, and had his work featured in a major 1965 Technicolor film starring Dick Van Dyke, James Garner, Elke Sommer and Angie Dickinson.
Perspectives: Don Cincone
Despite having spent much of his life living in far-flung parts of the United States and Europe, Don Cincone will always consider northeast Louisiana home. Born in rural Richland Parish to sharecropper parents in 1936, this great-grandson of former slaves developed a powerful affinity for the woods and fields as a child. Even now, as a successful artist whose life and work have led him all over the world, the natural environment of his early years still serves as his lodestar and informs his aesthetic. “Inspiration is everywhere. The problem is we aren’t listening,” he declared. “Growing up I learned the endless information and knowledge that is to be found in the natural setting. That, as many others have thought, is the greatest university in existence.”