Ugo Mochi (pronounced 'Mokey'; 1889–1977) was a 20th-century illustrator, sculptor and designer whose artistic abilities working with the silhouette earned him worldwide notoriety as the greatest living exponent of 'Shadows in Outline'.
At age 8 he took lessons from a Florentine painter; when he was ten, he enrolled in Florence's Fine Arts Academy, where he studied sculpting, anatomy, and drawing.
Meanwhile, his paper silhouettes gained growing success, and he continued to produce them for clients as important as noted Italian brands Campari and Pirelli.
[3] In 1928, Mochi and his wife – an opera singer – moved to the United States and settled in New Rochelle, New York, where he lived for the rest of his life.
New York's American Museum of Natural History currently has fourteen huge panels on display showcasing his dinosaurs, penguins, and majestic rainforest creatures.