About this Work
About the Artist
Mireille Piazzoni Wood, born into an artistic family, exhibited in her first professional art show at age 15. Mireille often tagged along with her father’s painting classes and sketched on location in Marin’s open hills before she soon enrolled at CSFA. The following years were filled with exhibitions, most notably inclusion in the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition at San Francisco’s Treasure Island. In 1937 she married a fellow art student, Philip Wood. They raised their two sons, Thomas and Jon, in San Francisco. Throughout her entire life she painted with verve and delight, always on the move to capture the landscape and life in San Francisco, Marin, the Oakland Hills, summer enclaves at the Russian River, and the Piazzoni ranch.
