Lucien Labaudt

Lucien Adolphe Labaudt (May 14, 1880 - December 12, 1943) was a French-born American painter based in San Francisco, California.[3]

Lucien Labaudt
Born
Lucien Adolphe Labaudt[1]

(1880-05-14)May 14, 1880[2]
Paris, France
DiedDecember 12, 1943(1943-12-12) (aged 63)
OccupationPainter
Lucien Labaudt - W-2 (1935)

Biography

Labaudt was born in Paris on May 14, 1880.[3] In 1906, he emigrated to the United States and first settled in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1910, he moved to San Francisco in a studio. In 1919, Labaudt started teaching at the California School of Fine Arts.[2] He painted two murals in the lobby of the courthouse on Spring Street in Los Angeles: Life on the Old Spanish and American Ranchos in 1938 and Aerodynamism in 1941.[4] On December 12, 1943, he died in a plane crash in India while working for Life magazine.[2][5] His widow opened the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery in San Francisco posthumously.[6] His work can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[7]

References
  1. "Labaudt, Lucien Adolphe". Getty Museum. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. "Lucien Labaudt (1880-1943)". George Stern Fine Arts. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. "Artist Lucien Labaudt Loses Life In Plane Crash Near Burma Border". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. December 15, 1943. p. 1. Retrieved May 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "U. S. COURTHOUSE, WESTERN DIVISION: LABAUDT MURALS – LOS ANGELES CA". The Living New Deal. Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
  5. "Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield". History Net. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  6. "Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers, 1896-1987". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
  7. "Lucien Labaudt". SFMOMA. Retrieved May 4, 2021.


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