His landscapes, streetscapes, still life's and portraiture's encompass themes from light-hearted and joyous to moody and melancholy, frequently depicting locales such as Italy, New York City and coastal Maine.

Pucci studied at the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts and then attended the Pratt Institute, where he worked as an instructor in figure drawing, and layout and design for 24 years.

"[6] Pucci excelled in the field of commercial art, creating numerous book covers[7] for major publishers such as Signet, Dell, Houghton Mifflin, Washington Square Press and Mentor Books which were featured on works of classic authors such as Shakespeare, Bronte, Melville, Tennyson and Twain.

His work has been featured in various permanent collections, including the Thayer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas and the Wausau Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin as well as corporate collections of companies such as MetLife, Nabisco, Pfizer, Lehman Brothers, Abbot Laboratories, Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.

He is the father of Lisa De Wolf, show designer of the world-renowned performance art group Artrageous.