Oral history interview with Pietro Lazzari
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 58 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lazzari, Pietro, 1898-1979
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
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content: Mural painting and decoration
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Washington (D.C.) -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: 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.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Lazzari, Pietro, 1898-1979
label: Interviewer
content: Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-1979
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Pietro Lazzari (1898-1979) was a sculptor and painter from Washington, D.C. Lazzari studied art in Paris and at the Ornamental School of Rome. After several trips to the United States during the late 1920s, he settled here permanently in 1929. Following his marriage in 1934, he worked on two murals for the U.S. Section of Fine Arts. Moved to Washington, D.C., 1942, and began teaching and doing his art work. He is known for his bronze busts of humanitarians, most notably Pope Paul VI, Adlai Stevenson, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Represented by the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York. Was very active in the Washington, D.C. art community.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 77 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lazzar64
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Pietro Lazzari conducted in 1964, by Harlan Phillips, for the Archives of American Art.