Beniamino Bufano papers

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Beniamino Bufano papers

[1930s-1970]

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Ten notebooks containing newspaper and magazine articles, pictures, letters, telegrams, and brochures; as well as numerous loose clippings from the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner, photographs, and correspondence.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8237276

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Goetz, William, 1931-1988.

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Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970

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Beniamino Bufano, a sculptor, was born in San Fele, Italy in 1886, and the fourteenth of fifteen children. He immigrated to New York with his family when he was a boy. As an adult he lived all over the world, but mostly in San Francisco. He married in 1925 to Virginia Bufano Lewin. They had one son Erskine. Virginia and Bufano divorced in 1932. Sponsors included Albert Bender and Trader Vic Bergeron. Bufano died in 1970 in San Francisco. From the description of Beniamino Bufano autob...