Work Experience
1942-1946 Lived in New York City with her Boston friend Mary Helen Brown. Pierone worked as a full-time assistant art director of W. T. Grant, the burgeoning chain of dime stores. She reconnected with her friend Tom Keogh, also living in New York and working as a costume and set designer/illustrator for Barbara Karinska, costume director for the New York City Ballet.
1946 Returned to Spokane, where she took a job as artist in a small ad agency, Pierone and Associates, owned by a young man, Bob Pierone. They dated for four years.
1950-1952 Sally traveled to Europe with her friend Mary Virginia Gordon, sailing tourist class on the Italian ship Saturnia, arriving in Naples. After stays in Rome and Florence, the young women moved to Paris, where Pierone stayed through 1952. It was in Paris that she took the job of art director of the Marshall Plan, working at the American Embassy and creating posters, booklets, and displays for the European Freedom Train. She also drew illustrations for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Paris Review.
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