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...Rico Lebrun came to America as a commercial artist in 1924 after training at both the Naples Academy of Fine Arts and a Neapolitan stained-glass factory. He worked commercially in Pittsburgh and New York for several years, then returned to Italy in the early thirties. There, he studied the frescoes of Signorelli and developed his talent enough to win two successive Guggenheim grants when he returned to the United States in 1936. He claims that the Italian wall painters are still the greatest influence on his work...
...Lebrun has called California his home since 1936, but has taught at Yale and the Art Students' League of New York, as well as UCLA. He has given major exhibits in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Toronto. He has won greatest acclaim for a series of paintings on "The Crucifixion...
...drawings at the Mirski Gallery, Lebrun's massive, thick-loined human figures, often headless and otherwise distorted, alternately embrace and support each other. They seem to battle against the grasp of the deep shadows which model their limbs and torsos. The prevailing mood is Dantesque. Lebrun's style adapts excellently to his bat-winged "Lucifer" and to several smaller drawings for the "Inferno," but seems out-of-place when applied to "Two Dancers...
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...Previous winners in painting: Charles Burchfield, Andrew Wyeth, Rico Lebrun and Raphael Soyer. In other years, the award is given for sculpture, the novel, poetry and drama...