Caputo began his artistic training at the School of Fine Arts in Naples, where he was a pupil of Domenico Morelli between 1890 and 1892. He left art school to go and work with Gaetano Esposito; then, in 1894, he returned to Salerno. In 1900 he went to try his luck in Paris: he began exhibiting at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français in 1901, and won a medal there in 1909. In 1907 his work appeared at the Venice Biennale, and in 1910 he was awarded a gold medal at the Munich exhibition. He travelled to Brittany in 1911, stayed there for a year, and brought back numerous landscapes. In 1918 he settled in Aix-en-Provence, painting landscapes of the south of France. Between 1922 and 1935 he participated in numerous exhibitions in Europe, and North and South America. He also made frequent trips to Morocco between 1925 and 1930, as a guest of the Count of Chambrun.

Museum and Gallery Holdings

Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Symphony
Pittsburgh (Carnegie MA)
Toulon (MA)