Raymond Puccinelli

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.

Early life 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. His father Antonio (or Antone) Giovanni Puccinelli was Italian from Lucca, and his mother Pearl (née Andreson) had Swedish heritage.

Career

Puccinelli studied fine arts at California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute), and at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. In 1957, Puccinelli toured South America as a cultural representative of the United States Department of State. In Europe, he used the name "Raimondo Puccinelli". Panther (1940), Hartnell College, Salinas, California, this piece was created with support from the Federal Art Project. Grizzly Bear (1955), UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California. Floating (1984), fountain Kaufbeuren, Germany.

Personal life In the 1930s, he had been married to artist Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli, which ended in divorce.

He had regularly sketched dancers in the 1930s and 1940s and he eventually married a dancer, Esther Cecilia Fehlen in the 1940s. Together with Fehlen, they had one daughter.