21 Atkins Mayo Road

21 Atkins Mayo Road. [2018, Dunlap]

This is the home — and was formerly the studio — of the sculptor and graphic artist Romolo Del Deo. His mother, Josephine (Couch) Del Deo, told me this house was probably built soon after the parcel was acquired in 1915 by Col. Francis Bacon Jones, who fought in the Civil War. His children were the artist Mary Bacon Jones, an important member of the Provincetown color woodblock group, and Russell Jones, who sold the property in 1928 to his brother-in-law, Shorb Floyd Jones. Josephine and Salvatore Del Deo, and Josephine’s mother, Osma Gallinger Tod, bought it in 1971. Romolo earned a bachelor’s degree from the 346-year-old Harvard University and a certificate from the 418-year-old Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. He also studied in Carrara and Pietrasanta. He has counted Dimitri Hadzi among his teachers. He’s owned this property since 1992.