Charles DeCarlo was born in 1911. He studied at the Art Students’ League and the National Academy of Design in New York and with Josef Albers at the Yale School of Design. Charles was a frequent exhibitor with the Connecticut Water Color Society from 1939. After serving in the U.S. Army, he studied art with Jerry Farnsworth in 1946. DeCarlo shared an art studio with his brother, artist Victor DeCarlo, in New Haven, Connecticut in 1954, and continued to travel to Cape Cod during the summer months until he ultimately settled in Wellfleet, Massachusetts with his wife, artist Doris Dickason in 1972. His work is represented in the collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, The New Britain Museum of American Art and the Provincetown Art Association & Museum among others.