Raymond Puccinelli

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.

[1][2] His father Antonio (or Antone) Giovanni Puccinelli was Italian from Lucca, and his mother Pearl (née Andreson) had Swedish heritage.

[1] When he returned to San Francisco, he studied under Jorge Vieira and Beniamino Bufano.

[1] He had shared studio space with Diego Rivera, where he was able to meet Fernand Léger and Oskar Kokoschka.

[3] In the 1930s, he had been married to artist Dorothy Wagner Puccinelli, which ended in divorce.