Wood, Mireille Piazzoni, 1911-2006
Muralist
Size: Transcript: 5 pages
Format: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformated in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 12 min.
Summary: An interview of Mireille Piazzoni Wood conduced 1965 June 23, by Mary Fuller McChesney, for the Archives of American Art.
Mireille Piazzoni Wood (1911-2006) was a muralist from San Francisco, California.
Conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Mireille Piazzoni Wood, 1965 June 23. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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