Sarah Nettleton "Sally" Pierone (10 February 1921 – 22 June 2018) was an American art director of the Marshall Plan who in 1952 worked at the American Embassy in Paris creating posters, booklets and displays to help rebuild Europe after World War II. A family counselor as well as an artist, Pierone created the image of "The Raft", enlarging upon Virginia Satir's concepts of family roles by showing how four personality stereotypes counterbalance one another. She is the subject of a biography, Sally — The Older Woman's Illustrated Guide to Self-Improvement, by Judy Laddon. Early life Sally Pierone was born Sarah Nettleton Paine on 10 February 1921 in Spokane, Washington. She was the second of two children born to Clara Abercrombie Paine and attorney Alan Paine. Her sister, Harriet, was a year older. Her maternal grandfather, William Ralph Abercrombie, had been the first soldier to arrive in the small settlement of Spokane in 1877. The newborn Sally was a blue baby who suffered from inattention because her mother was hemorrhaging during childbirth. Clara Paine survived, but for six weeks the baby remained in the hospital. This lack of early maternal bonding, in Pierone's view, caused psychological trauma that she addressed through her art. Her father was a prominent attorney, eventually a partner in a Spokane law firm that still bears his name, Paine Hamblen. The Paine grandparents owned a family compound in nearby Hayden Lake, Idaho, where Sally and her sister spent their summers. Bing Crosby was a seasonal neighbor and friend. Education 1936-1938 Pierone boarded at a private high school, Seattle's The Bush School. 1938-1940 She attended Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts) in Los Angeles, studying with Italian artist Rico Lebrun and becoming close friends with fellow student Tom Keogh, who became a successful artist, costume and set designer, and who married [[Theodora Keogh|Theodora Roosevelt]], President Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter. 1940-1942 School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During the summer of 1941 she worked for Cape Cod folk artist Peter Hunt, who was a national phenomenon, painting bright, primitive pictures on cheap, antiqued furniture. Pierone painted a four-panel screen for opera star Lily Pons. 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