Oral history interview with Pietro Lazzari

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Section of Fine Arts.

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Established 1934 under the Treasury Department as the Section of Painting and Sculpture. Name changed to Section of Fine Arts in 1938. In 1939, the Federal Works Agency was established and set up the Public Buildings Administration, which combined the Treasury Department's Public Buildings Branch and the Branch of Public Buildings of the National Park Service. The Section's function was to decorate new federal buildings. Unlike the other New Deal art agencies, it was not a relief project, but aw...

Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-

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Lazzari, Pietro, 1898-1979

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Lazzari was born in Italy, studied in Paris, and worked primarily in New York and Washington. He made the cover drawing for Ernesto Galarza's "Merchants of labor." From the description of Original drawings and sketches, 1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864426 Pietro Lazzari (1898-1979) was a muralist, sculptor, and educator from Washington, D.C. Born in Rome, Italy, Pietro Lazzari studied at the Ornamental School of Rome after serving in World...