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Leon Dabo

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Leon Dabo (1864 - 1960) was active/lived in New York / France.  Leon Dabo is known for River-scene and still life painting, decoration, murals.

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 The following is from The New York Times Art & Design section, courtesy of Paul Gallagher, Stillwell House Fine Art and Antiques

Antiques Restoration Project: An Artist's History and His Collection
By EVE M. KAHN
Published: July 19, 2012
   
Leon Dabo's own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees.

Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the radar of art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo's only grandson, told art dealers during a recent filmed interview that he hardly knew his grandfather. He does remember a debonair gentleman fond of expensive liqueurs and chronically short of   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16135 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

.  askART lists Leon Dabo in 3 of its research Essays. Leon Dabo has 22 artist signature examples available in our database.

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Facts about Leon Dabo

   Publications  Book References:  86
Magazine References:  2

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Leon Dabo
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Mount Holyoke College Art Museum June 2004 Doezema, Marianne Yes
American Art Review Twenty Years of Art December 1996 Goley, Mary Anne Yes
86 Book References for Leon Dabo
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Agee, William C. Modern Art in America, 1908-1968 352 Yes
2015 Eggermont-Molenaar, Mary The William Van Horne Collection: A Dutch Treat (Memo Books) 482 Yes
2014 Vonk, Nathan and Dr. William Gerdts Leon Dabo's Florals: In Defense of Beauty (Sullivan Goss) 201 Yes
2012 Goss, Frank and Jeremy Tessmer The Drawings of Leon Dabo (Sullivan Goss) 136 Yes
2012 Hartley, Dr. Cody, Dr. William Gerdts, Frank Goss and Nathan Vonk The Pastels of Leon Dabo (Sullivan Goss) 136 Yes
2010 Cleveland, David Adams A History of American Tonalism 592 Yes
2010 Editor Tonalism: James Abbott McNeill Whistler, George Inness, Leon Dabo, Theodore Stamos, Xavier Martinez, Jack Cassinetto, Dwight William Tryon 78 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2005 Sessions, Ralph (Intro); Nicolai Cikovsky, Ellen Denker, et all The Poetic Vision: American Tonalism (Spanierman Galleries, LLC.)
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
2003 Austin, Robert Michael Artists of the Litchfield Hills
(Exhibition catalog)		 132 Yes
2003 Mann, F & Keller C (essay) American Society of Contemporary Artists 72 Yes
2002 Hauptman, William American Impressionism, 1880-1915
(Exhibition catalog)		 144 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students) 187 No
1997 Troyen; Moore; Diamond American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1997 0 No
1995 Editor, Witt Library A Checklist of Painters, circa 1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library (Courtauld Institute of Art, London) 557 No
1994 Bower, James; Martha Buca Union List of Artist Names 0 No
1994 High Museum of Art American Paintings at the High Museum of Art 216 Yes
1992 Karel, David Dictionnaire des Artistes de Langue francaise en Amerique du Nord: peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs, graveurs, photographes, et orfevres 962 No
1991 Ed: Hartford Boiler Coll. Connecticut Masters: Fine Arts and Antiques Collections of Hartford Steam 271 Yes
1991 Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface) American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 Yes
1990 Dunbar, Prescott N The New Orleans Museum of Art, The First Seventy-Five Years 0 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Marlais, Michael Andrew Americans and Paris
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 Yes
1989 Bolger, Fritzche, Hazzi, etc. American Pastels: In the Metropolitan Museum of Art 0 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fehrer, Catherine The Julian Academy Paris, 1868-1939: Spring Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 No
1989 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Impressionism and other movements
(Exhibition catalog)		 53 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Green, Martin New York 1913 The Armory Show and the Patterson Strike Pageant 325 No
1987 Sweeney, J Gray Artists of Michigan from The Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1987 Tutag, Nola H; Lucy Hamilton Discovering Stained Glass in Detroit 0 Yes
1987 Weber, Bruce/William H Gerdts In Nature's Ways American Landscape/Late Nineteenth Century
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Perlman, Bennard B The Immortal Eight & Its Influenc
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 No
1982 Gerdts, William H (others) Tonalism An American Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 94 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1980 Johnson, Jane; A Greutzner The Dictionary of British Artists 1880-1940 567 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1977 Gamble, Kathryn (Foreward); Thomas Hoving, William Gerdts, Lloyd Goodrich The American Painting Collection of the Montclair Art Museum 268 Yes
1977 Hills, Patricia Turn-of-the-Century America Paintings, Graphics, Photographs 1890-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 194 Yes
1977 Schwab, Arnold T A Matter of Life and Death: Vital Biographical Facts about Selected 0 No
1975 Chambers, Bruce W American Paintings in the High Museum of Art/Bicentenial Catalogue 127 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Gibson, Arthur Hopkin Artists of Early Michigan A Biographical Dictionary of Artists Native To or Active in Michigan 1701-1900 250 No
1974 Hislop, Richard Auction Prices of American Artists First Edition 0 No
1972 Corn, Wanda M The Color of Mood American Tonalism 1880-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1972 Earle, Helen L Biographical Sketches of American Artists 370 No
1970 Cohen, Mildred Tonalism: An American Interpretation of Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1970 Museum Staff (editors) Catalogue of American Paintings, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1970 0 No
1969 Myers, Bernard S McGraw Hill Dictionary of Art 0 No
1966 Gimpel, Rene Diary of an Art Dealer 0 No
1964 Paviere, Sydney H A Dictionary of British Flower, Fruit and Still Life Painters (3 Volumes) 125 No
1963 Brown, Milton W The Story of the Armory Show
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1963 Munson-Proctor Institute 1913 Armory Show: 50th Anniversary Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1956 Hueppe, Frederick Ernst The Radiant Light: A History of Saint John's College 0 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1949 Park, Esther Ailleen Mural Painters in America 0 No
1948 National Gallery Of Canada Catalog of Paintings National Gallery of Canada
(Exhibition catalog)		 271 No
1940 Klug, William L (Introductory Essay) Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1940 Myers, Jerome Artist in Manhattan 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1932 Museum Staff (editors) Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture in the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art 0 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1930 Smith, Ralph Clifton A Biographical Index of American Artists, 1930 0 No
1929 Editor, Arts Council of NY One Hundred Important Paintings By Living American Artists 0 No
1929 Narodny, Ivan American Artists 140 No
1928 Berry, Rose V S What Do You Know About American Art 0 No
1928 Museum Staff (editors) Catalogue of Paintings in Permanent Collection: Fort Worth Museum of Art 0 No
1925 Museum Staff (editors) The Davenport Municipal Art Gallery Catalogue of 334 Paintings 0 No
1922 Holmes, William H The National Gallery of Art: Catalogues of Collections
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1921 Berry, Rose VS Study Outlines and Bibliography of American Art 0 No
1920 Museum staff (editors) The Detroit Institute of Arts: Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, 0 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
1914 Editors, Grand Rapids Art Association Catalogue of the Twenty-Sixth Exhibition - Paintings by American Artists The Michigan State Federation of Art 2 Yes
1914 Levy, Florence (editor) The American Art Annuals 1911-1914 0 No
1914 Metropolitan Museum curators The Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 0 No
1913 Wickware, Francis G The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress, 1912 0 No
1911 Curtis, Georgina Pell The American Catholic Who's Who 0 No
1910 Museum Staff (editors) Handbook of Modern Paintings Belonging to Detroit Museum of Art 0 No
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