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Born in Naples in 1900, Rico Lebrun came to the United States in 1924. After a highly successful career as a commercial artist in New York, in the 1930s he turned full time to drawing and painting. He moved to California in 1938, Between 1940 and his death in 1964, his work achieved international stature; it is widely represented in major museums in the United States and Europe. Lebrun received three Guggenheim awards and numerous other honors, and was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1960Lebrun, Rico is the author of 'In the Meridian of the Heart Selected Letters of Rico Lebrun', published 2001 under ISBN 9781567921120 and ISBN 1567921124.
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