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ColoradoSpringsFineArtsCenter,andin1943-1944guestartistatMichiganState
CollegeatEastLansing,Michigan.CommissionedbyLifemagazine,shepaintedfour
picturestakenfromthemusicalcomedyOklahomain1944,workedinHollywood,
California,inthewintermonthsof1945,touredCentralAmericain1946,andwent
toNorthAfricain1951.Fortune,Seventeen,andCharmareamongothermagazines
whencemanyassignmentshavecome.
Ahalf-dozenormorebookscontainillustrationsbyDorisLee,oneofthembeing
Thurber'sGreatQuillow,andshepaintedamuralforapostofficeinWashington,
D.C.,theresultofwinningaFederalcompetitionin1936.
OtherawardsandhonorsaretheLoganprizeattheArtInstituteofChicagoin
1935 forherpaintingThanksgivingDinner;SecondPrizeattheWorcesterArtInsti-
tutein1938;ThirdPrizeattheCarnegieInstitute'sPaintingintheUnitedStates
showin1943;amedalforlandscapeatthePennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFineArts
in1944;LibraryofCongressLithographAward, 1947;HonoraryDoctorofLaws
degreefromRockfordCollege,1947;andtheNewYorkArtDirectorsAwardof
Meritin 1946 and1950.HerworkisrepresentedinthecollectionsoftheMetropoli-
tanMuseumofArtinNewYork;ArtInstituteofChicago;LibraryofCongress;
PhillipsMemorialGallery,Washington,D.C.;AlbrightArtGallery,Buffalo,New
York;MuseumoftheRhodeIslandSchoolofDesigninProvidence;Museumof
CranbrookAcademyofArt,BloomficldHills,Michigan;theuniversitiesofArizona
andNebraska;andEncyclopaediaBritannica.SheismarriedtoartistArnoldBlanch.
Woodstock,NewYork,isherpermanentaddress.
LEONID,Provincetown, 50 x32. Illustration—Plate 39
"Iaminterestedintheworldoftheland,thesea,thesky,andtheirrelationto
man.Thisworldismymaterialformakingapaintingandinvolvestheproblemsof
colors,values,formsandlines.Ibelieveallpaintingsmustbebasedonsomereality.
InmyProvincetownpictureIwasverymuchtakenbytheposts,thecharacterof
CapeCodandthebay."
LeonidwasborninSt.Petersburg,Russia,asitwasthencalled,in1896.In 1919
hemovedtoParis,becameaFrenchcitizen,firstcametotheUnitedStatesof
Americain1946,marriedtheharpsichordistSylviaMarlowe,andin^1951 becamea
citizenofthiscountry.
Hebegantodrawasasmallchildandbeganpaintingundertheinfluenceofthe
Impressionists.In 1919 and 1920 hewasintheAcademieRansonwhereVuillard,
Bonnard,MauriceDenis,Serusierandotherswereteaching.TraininginCubismwas
experiencedunderMarcoussisandJuanGris,andfurtherinfluencestemmedfrom
"'surrealist'friendswhoseideasIusedlaterinmyownandentirelydifferentway.
ItraveledinmostEuropeancountries,"Leonidcontinues,"especiallyinFranceand
Italy.ByexhibitingwithmyfriendsChristianBerard,Tchelitchewandmybrother
EugeneBermanwebecameknownastheNewRomanticgroup."Hehashadafew
privatepupils.
PicturesbyLeonidmaybeseeninthepermanentcollectionsoftheMetropoli-
tanMuseumofArtandtheMuseumofModernArtinNewYork;theWadsworth
AtheneuminHartford,Connecticut;Toledo(Ohio)MuseumofArt;andtheWil-
liamRockhillNelsonGalleryofArtinKansasCity,Missouri,aswellasinthe
handsofSchiaparelliinParis,JamesT.Soby,WilliamT.Kemper,andMrs.\'inrent
Astor.HelivesinNewYorkCity.