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Rico LeBrun

Rico LeBrun (1900 - 1964) was active/lived in California, New York / Italy.  Rico LeBrun is known for Modernist figure-genre, non objective, sculpture, teaching.

Rico LeBrun was born on December 10, 1900 in Naples, Italy. He immigrated to the United States in his twenties. He taught himself English and writing became for him another form of drawing, a way to exercise the muscles of vision and perception. He came to Southern California in the late 1930s following a decade as a commercial artist in New York City. In the late 1940s LeBrun's career was in full bloom.

In 1952 and 1953 he went to Mexico where he experienced a change in his work, namely collage. In 1958 he worked with Josef Albers at Yale University as a visiting artist, an unhappy stint because of the really great contrast in their approaches. Following that, he visited Naples for the first time since the 1930s. He found the city, and his family, still in ruins from the war. The episode left him very depressed and it took him much time to navigate his way out of it.

LeBrun was diagnosed with cancer in 1961. His son, David and a student, Jim Renner have collaborated on a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 15363 characters.]  Artist bio

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