Sisti studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy.

Later, he used the winnings from another fight to underwrite the cost of a personal art show in New York City.

[4] During the mid-1930s, he also won several Works Projects Administration art commissions including a large oil painting called Circus and a mural at Buffalo’s City Hospital.

In 1958, he helped the Allentown neighborhood organize an outdoor art festival, serving as the event’s first chairman.

Fifty years later, the Allentown Art Festival is still a popular annual event in Buffalo.

[5] In 1979, Sisti made a major gift to the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, including 26 paintings and drawings by Charles E. Burchfield as well as 32 of his own works.

In 2009, when the Burchfield-Penney Art Center opened its new museum on the campus of Buffalo State College, one of the main floor galleries was named after Sisti.

His portrait of heavy weight contender Phil Muscato, titled The Boxer, won the Gold Medal at the 1953 Buffalo Society of Artists exhibition.

The Burchfield-Penney Art Center also displays a number of Sisti’s paintings in its permanent collection.