Raymond Puccinelli, known as Raimondo Puccinelli, he was an American sculptor and educator.
11 Facts About Raymond Puccinelli
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Raymond Puccinelli was active in his work in San Francisco, Baltimore, and Florence, Italy.
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Raymond 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.
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In 1927, Raymond Puccinelli travelled to Lucca, Italy for a year to study further sculptural training and Italian art history.
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Raymond Puccinelli had shared studio space with Diego Rivera, where he was able to meet Fernand Leger and Oskar Kokoschka.
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Raymond Puccinelli taught sculpture at University of California, Berkeley, and periodically at Mills College.
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In 1948, Raymond Puccinelli moved to Flushing, Queens in New York to teach at Queens College.
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In 1957, Raymond Puccinelli toured South America as a cultural representative of the United States Department of State.
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Raymond Puccinelli taught at the Rinehart School of Sculpture, where he became Dean in October 1958.
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In 1960, Raymond Puccinelli moved to Florence, where he worked in a studio in Piazza Donatello 18.
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Raymond Puccinelli had regularly sketched dancers in the 1930s and 1940s and he eventually married a dancer, Esther Cecilia Fehlen in the 1940s.