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Art education, Chicago, Grinnell, California School of Fine Arts; Diego Rivera, Ralph Stackpole, Beniamino Bufano, Gottardo Piazzoni, the Howard Family, the WPA artists, and other San Francisco artists, sculptors, and architects; teaching, 1920s to present; the Stock Exchange Building, the Coit Tower, mural art of the 1930s; art patrons and museums; the Golden Gate International Exposition, 1940; women artists; the San Francisco Art Commission, 1937-53; Potrero Hill studio; liturgical art. With a supplementary interview with sister-in-law DOROTHY WAGNER PUCCINELLI CRAVATH (1901-1974) on family, education at Hopkins Art Institute, and the mural tradition in San Francisco. Appended WPA Project abstract on D. W. Puccinelli and Raymond Puccinelli.