Raymond Puccinelli, also known as Raimondo Puccinelli (1904–1986), he was an American sculptor and educator. He was active in his work in San Francisco, Baltimore, and Florence, Italy.
Raymond Puccinelli | |
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| Born | May 5, 1904 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 7, 1986 (aged 82) |
| Other names | Raimondo Puccinelli, Raimond Puccinelli, Raymond W. Puccinelli, Raimondo Giuseppe Puccinelli |
| Alma mater | California School of Fine Arts, Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design |
| Employer(s) | University of California, Berkeley, Mills College, Queens College, Rinehart School of Sculpture |
| Spouse(s) | Dorothy Wagner (divorce), Esther Cecilia Fehlen |
| Children | 1 |
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Early life
editRaymond Puccinelli was born on May 5, 1904, in San Francisco, California, his early childhood home was on Jessie Street in the neighborhood of South of Market.[1][2] His father Antonio (or Antone) Giovanni Puccinelli was Italian from Lucca, and his mother Pearl (née Andreson) had Swedish heritage.[3][2] He attended Lowell High School.[2] Starting at age 15, he started attended theatre classes at University of California, Berkeley on a scholarship and he learned about writing plays and designing stages.[2][4]
Career
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Puccinelli studied fine arts at California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), and at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design.[1] In 1927, Puccinelli travelled to Lucca, Italy for a year to study further sculptural training and Italian art history (specifically Romanesque, Gothic, and late Renaissance sculpture).[1] When he returned to San Francisco, he studied under Jorge Vieira and Beniamino Bufano.[1]
In the 1940s, he had an art studio in Chinatown, San Francisco at 15 Hotaling Place.[1] He had shared studio space with Diego Rivera, where he was able to meet Fernand Léger and Oskar Kokoschka.[3] Puccinelli taught sculpture at University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and periodically at Mills College.[1]
In 1948, Puccinelli moved to Flushing, Queens in New York to teach at Queens College.[1] The following year in 1949, Puccinelli had a retrospective exhibition at Philadelphia Art Alliance.[5] In 1957, Puccinelli toured South America as a cultural representative of the United States Department of State.[4] He taught at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, where he became Dean in October 1958.[4]
In 1960, Puccinelli moved to Florence, where he worked in a studio in Piazza Donatello 18.[3][6] In Europe, he used the name "Raimondo Puccinelli".[3]
Public art
edit- Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Plaque (1938), Lombard Street, North Beach, San Francisco.[7]
- Panther (1940), Hartnell College, Salinas, California, this piece was created with support from the Federal Art Project.[8][9][10]
- Grizzly Bear (1955), UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California.[11][12]
- Floating (1984), fountain Kaufbeuren, Germany.
Personal life
editIn the 1930s, he had been married to artist Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli, which ended in divorce.[13]
He had regularly sketched dancers in the 1930s and 1940s and he eventually married a dancer, Esther Cecilia Fehlen in the 1940s.[14] Together with Fehlen, they had one daughter.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g Hughes, Edan Milton (2002). Artists in California, 1786-1940: L-Z. Crocker Art Museum. p. 901. ISBN 978-1-884038-08-2.
- ^ a b c d Teiser, Ruth (September 21, 1974). "Raymond Puccinelli, Sculptor: San Francisco to Florence" (PDF). Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library. Ann Weinstock. University of California, Berkeley.
- ^ a b c d "Raimondo Puccinelli". Wall Street International (in German). 2014-06-17. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b c Anson, Cherrill (31 January 1960). "Portrait of An Artist as a Teacher". Newspapers.com. The Baltimore Sun. p. 151. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ "Widely Known Sculptor Returns to Napa for the Summer". Newspapers.com. Napa Journal. 23 July 1950. p. 16. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ Who's Who in American Art, Vol. 8. R. R. Bowker. 1962. p. 491.
- ^ "Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937) Memorial Plaque". San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC). City and County of San Francisco.
- ^ "Panther, (sculpture)". Collections Search Center, Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ "Hartnell College Sculpture - Salinas CA". Living New Deal. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ "Artist: Raymond Puccinelli". New Deal Art Registry. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ Helfand, Harvey (2002). University of California, Berkeley: An Architectural Tour. Princeton Architectural Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-56898-293-9.
- ^ Chiang, Harriet (2005-09-09). "Berkeley: UC sculptures make the grade". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ "Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli - Biography". Askart.com. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
- ^ a b "Raymond / Raimondo Puccinelli". Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln (in German). Retrieved 2021-07-07.
