Edward Giobbi was born in 1926 in Waterbury, Connecticut, to Italian parents. He completed his studies at the Whitney School of Art in 1946, at the Vesper George School of Art in 1950, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1954. Beginning in 1952, he took part in numerous international exhibitions, showing work in New York, Lucerne, Memphis, Katonah, London, Princeton, Washington, Boston, Detroit, Waterbury, Palm Beach, Rome and Milan. In Tuscany—a region for which he has a particular affection—he exhibited at Florence’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi and at the Palazzo Pretorio in Certaldo. His paintings and drawings are held in many distinguished public collections, including the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Allentown Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooks Memorial Gallery in Memphis, the Hood Museum of Art in Hanover, the Tate Gallery in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.