Oral history interview with Thomas Adrian Fransioli
name: label: Interviewee
content: Fransioli, Thomas Adrian, 1906-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
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content: Art Students League (New York, N.Y.) -- Students
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content: National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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content: University of Pennsylvania -- Students
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content: Brown, Margaret E., 1908-1957
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content: Eggers, O. R. (Otto Reinhold), 1882-1964
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content: Feiss, Carl
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content: Finley, David E. (David Edward)
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content: Klauder, Charles Z. (Charles Zeller), 1872-1938
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content: Pope, John Russell, 1874-1937
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content: Walker, John, 1906-1995
topic: label: Topic
content: Architects -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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content: Architecture -- Study and teaching
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content: Interior decorators -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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content: Painters -- Massachusetts -- Interviews
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content: World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Hiroshima
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content: World War, 1939-1945 -- Photography
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Fransioli, Thomas Adrian, 1906-1997
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Thomas Adrian Fransioli (1906- 1997) was an architect and painter from Massachusetts. He was born in Seattle, Washington.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Items (Sound recording: 2 sound files, digital, wav file)
label: Extent
content: 37 Pages (Transcript)
phystech: label: System Details
content: Originally recorded on 1 tape reel (5 in.).
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981 April 21
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.fransi81
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
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content: Interviews
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content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Interview of Thomas Adrian Fransioli, conducted April 21, 1981, by Robert F. Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, in Wenham, Massachusetts.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Fransioli speaks of his upbringing in Seattle, Washington; training and friendships at architectural school at the University of Pennsylvania; working in North Carolina, Virginia, Philadelphia, and Cleveland as an architect, interior designer, and draftsman; his commission for a grand country house in Virginia, 1932-1934; his work for John Russell Pope on the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; work in photographic reconnaissance for the U.S. Army during World War II; visiting Hiroshima after the atomic bomb; his training at the Art Students League; his paintings of cityscapes and houses; the promotion of his career by Margaret Brown of Boston; and influences upon him. Fransioli also recalls Charles Klauder, Margaret Brown, Carl Feiss, Otto Eggers, John Walker, David Finley; and others.