Giglio Dante can be seen pictured alongside his contemporaries in ARTnews,[2] which published a John Brook portrait of eleven Boston painters including Karl Zerbe, Reed Champion, Ture Bengtz, Maud Morgan, Kahlil Gibran, Esther Geller, Carl Pickhardt, John Northey, Thomas Fransioli, and Lawrence Kupferman.
Considered a teenage prodigy, Dante started painting portraits and murals at a young age.
The murals were not without controversy as some residents considered the depiction of Italians as unhappy laborers to be distasteful.
It was at this time he broke with his father in his portrait work and the traditions of a classical painter and became and an active member in the Boston Expressionists Movement.
[12][13] He became part of the Betty Parson Gallery for 10 years and sold with the likes of Mark Rothko, Hans Hofmann, and Barnett Newman.