Paul DeLorenzo was born in Brooklyn, New York. Upon graduating preparatory school in Massachusetts, he entered art school in Boston. Precociously talented, he was dissatisfied with the modernist indoctrination which had completely replaced the teaching of drawing and painting in these institutions. Desperate for knowledge he left art school to copy old masters at the museums in Boston in an attempt to teach himself.

Fortuitously, the day after leaving art school, R. H. Ives Gammell discovered DeLorenzo at the Boston Museum of Fine Art engaged copying a dwarf by Velasquez. Gammell likened the event to Cimabue discovering young Giotto. The following day Gammell invited the boy to join his studio school. Mr. DeLorenzo continued his studies with Richard Lack becoming Atelier Lack's first full-time student in what was to become Lack's core group. Nearly four years later he returned East to establish himself as a still life and portrait painter.

Mr. DeLorenzo carries on the tradition of artistic excellence inherited from his teachers enriched with his own deep understanding of the great art of the past.