Tony Falcone has painted professionally since 1974.  After serving as a New Haven firefighter for seven years, he discovered his love of mural-painting and left the Fire Department to establish his Studio in a vintage dairy barn located in Prospect, Connecticut.  It is there, as well as on location throughout the United States, that he creates most of his “imaginistic” murals, canvases, and portraits.

Today, Falcone Art Studio is known for its wide spectrum of fine artworks created primarily on a commissioned basis. Falcone’s monumental murals, highly detailed canvases, heirloom quality portraits, and sculpture enhance public spaces, corporate and education settings, as well as private homes. Widely known for his skill in capturing familiar landscapes/cityscapes, the artist reproduces these nostalgic images as collectible fine art prints, posters, etchings, greeting cards, and paperweights.

From 2000 through 2014, Falcone worked with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association/Class of 1964, New London, CT, to create the Historical Murals Project - a series of 14 highly-detailed/researched oil paintings on linen depicting U.S. Coast Guard history from WWII through “9/11”.  On June 9, 2009, the ninth painting in the series, an 11 ft. canvas entitled “D-Day at Omaha Beach”, was unveiled at the Academy’s 65th D-Day anniversary ceremony.  On September 11, 2011, the “9/11” painting depicting the Coast Guard’s critical role in evacuating 650,000 people from Battery Park in Lower Manhattan was exhibited at NYC’s Intrepid Museum for the 10th Anniversary of “9/11” honoring first responders from all branches of the U.S. Military Service.  In 2014, Falcone’s bronze portrait bust of NFL Hall of Fame star, Otto Graham, former Athletic Director and Coach of the Academy’s football team, was unveiled at the  Otto Graham Hall of Athletic Excellence. In 2015, the artist’s trompe l’oeil mural, “Cadets Journey”, was unveiled at the Academy’s Alumni Center, and his portrait of America’s tall ship barque Eagle, “Leading the Way”, commissioned by the National Coast Guard Museum to launching its capital drive, was unveiled at the New York Yacht Club.

Other notable Falcone murals include: Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale; Yale University Law School; Floyd Little Field House at Hillhouse High School; Albertus Magnus College; Fusco Corporation; Saybrook Resort & Marina; downtown Old Saybrook. Many remember Falcone’s earlier 1970’s iconic oversized murals “La Aquariata” (Hamden Cinemart), and “Fast Track” (Sports Haven/ New Haven, CT).

 Falcone’s executive and heirloom portraits are held in the collections of the Yale School of Nursing; Yale School of Medicine; Hospital of Saint Raphael; YNHH-Smilow Cancer Center, Albertus Magnus College; Gateway Community College; Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce; Superior and Probate Courts in Hartford and New Haven; Saybrook Point Inn & Spa; International Aero Engines, Glastonbury; U.S.C.G.  Academy in New London, CT;  and the Sewall Foundation in Portland, Maine.

Falcone is the recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT.  He is featured in “Artists Next Door: A Great City’s Creative Spirit” published in New Haven, CT by Cheever Tyler, and is a member of the Portrait Society of America.  Tony lives in Cheshire, Connecticut with Judith Andrews, his partner, business manager and muse.