BORN: Naples, Italy, December 10, 1900

EDUCATION:
1914 National Technical School, Naples, Italy
1917 National Technical Institute, Naples, Italy

AWARDS:
1962-63 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1963 Joseph Pennell Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1962 Purchase Award, "Third Biennial National Print Exhibit", Pasadena Art Museum
        Lippincott Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1953 Temple Gold Medal, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
1952 Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts & Letter for
                "Outstanding achievement in the past five years in paintings"
1950 Second Prize, "American Painting Today", The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1949 Purchase Prize, "Illinois National Exhibition of Contemporary Painting",
                University of Illinois
1948 First Prize, "Artists of Los Angeles & Vicinity", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1947 Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, The Art Institute of Chicago
        First Prize, "Abstract & Surrealist American Art", The Art Institute of Chicago
1937-38 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1936-37 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 “Rico Lebrun: Consulting the Tangible World”, Curated by David A. Lewis & Michael T. Ricker,
                Griffith Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
2001 "In the Meridian of the Heart: Paintings & Drawings by Rico Lebrun," Koplin Gallery, LA
1999 "Rico Lebrun: The Line of Passion," The Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
        "Rico Lebrun: The Figure", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
        "Carnal Relations: Works on Paper", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Rico Lebrun", Ricker Gallery, Garland, TX
1998 "Rico Lebrun, A Survey", MB Modern, New York, NY
        "Rico Lebrun: The Genesis Mural", Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College,
                Claremont, CA (brochure)
1997 "Metamorphosis" (3 person), MB Modern, New York, NY
        "Paintings and Drawings After: Goya, Grunewald, Rembrandt, Rubens, Traini, Velazquez",
                Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Rico Lebrun: The Holocaust Paintings", The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1994 "Rico Lebrun: The Expressionist Figure", Joe & Emily Lowe Art Gallery,
                Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
        "Drawings and Graphics", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Sculpture and Drawings 1959-1963", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 "Rico Lebrun", Cunningham Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA
1985 "Rico Lebrun: Mexico/ Spain", Mekler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "Rico Lebrun: Transformations/ Transfigurations", Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1982 "Rico Lebrun", San Diego Print Club, San Diego, CA
        "Rico Lebrun", Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA
1979 "Rico Lebrun", Art Gallery of Allen Hancock College,
1976 "Rico Lebrun", Woodward Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1975 "Rico Lebrun: Drawings and Sculpture", University Arts Collection/ Arizona St. University
1971 "Rico Lebrun: Late Works", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalog)
1967 "Rico Lebrun 1900-1964", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
          Traveling Exhibition: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, D.F. 1968
          University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 1968
        University of California, Berkeley," Berkeley, CA 1968
        Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA 1968
        Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK 1968
        National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. 1969
1966 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
1965 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
        Nuova Pesa Gallery, Milan, Italy
        Kolver Gallery, Chicago, IL
        Nuova Pesa Gallery, Rome, Italy
        Ohio Wesleyan University, DE
        Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
        "Rico Lebrun: Early Drawings", Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
        Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC
        "Rico Lebrun: Sculpture", Lee Nordness Galleries, New York, NY
        Pavillion Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
        Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
        Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1963 Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA
        Lee Nordness Galleries, New York, NY
        Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
        Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, NY
        Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
        Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA
        Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
        East Cleveland Museum Galleries, Cleveland, OH
        Joe and Emily Lowe Art Center Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
        Lee Nordness Galleries, NY
        Odelisk Gallery, Washington, DC
        Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1961 "Rico Lebrun, Paintings and Drawings 1946-1961", Fisher Gallery,
                University of Southern California, LA, CA
        Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
1960 Esther Bear Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
        Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
        University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1959 Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston, MA
        Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
        Occidental College, Eagle Rock, CA
1958 De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA
        Gallery of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
        The Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
        University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
        Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1956 MH De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
        Pomona College Art Gallery, Claremont, CA
        Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
        Whyte Gallery, Washington DC
1955 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
        Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1954 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1952 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1951 Frank Perls Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
        Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, NY
        MH De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
        Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
        Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
        Tacoma Art League, Tacoma, WA
1950 Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, NY
        Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
        Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
        Salt Lake Art Barn, Salt Lake City, UT
1949 Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
        William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MI
1948 American Federation of Art, New York, NY
        Modern Institute of Art, Beverly Hills, CA
1947 Jepson Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
        MH De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
        Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1945 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1944 Julien Levy Gallery, New York
1942 MH De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
        Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
        San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1940 Faulkner Memorial Art Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
        San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
        San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004 “Tamarind: 40 Years”, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2000 "Cross Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz," Achim Moeller Fine Art, NY, NY
        "Collage and Assemblage," Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Paintings & Works on Paper", Santa Barbara Co. Arts Commission, Santa Barbara, CA
        "Works on Paper", The Frameworks Gallery and de la guerra gallery, Santa Barbara CA
        "Drawn From Life", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
        "Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974",
                Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
        "Made in California, 1999-2000", LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
        "Implementations:Farm Machinery & Other Images of Ranch Life",
                Santa Barbara County Arts Commission, CA
1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996 "On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts,Inc., LA, CA.
        "Figuratively Speaking", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1996 "Inaugural Group Exhibition", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 "Legends of Watercolor", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        "Post-Surrealism, Abstraction, and Fantasy", Tobey C. Moss Gallery, LA, CA
1993 "Drawings III", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Black and White", Art Alliance Gallery, Riverside, CA
        "Drawings II", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 "Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 "The Reflective Image: American Drawings 1910-1960", Midtown Galleries, NY
        "Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956", Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
                Santa Barbara, CA (travelling show)
1982 "Drawings and Illustrations by Southern California Artists before 1950", Laguna Beach
                Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
1965 Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Exhibitions of Contemporary
                Paintings and Sculpture"
        Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, "The Johnson Collection of Contemporary American Paintings"
1964 Otis Art Institute, LA, CA, "First Biennial Invitational Drawing Exhibition"
        The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, "The Painter and the Photograph"
1963 Mathildenhohe, Farmstadt, Germany, "Zeugnisse der angst in der Modernen Kunst"
        Providence Art Club, Rhode Island, "Kane Memorial Exhibition"
        Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, "20th Century Master Drawings",
                (also exhibited at the University of Minnesota & the Fogg
        Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
        University of Kentucky, Lexington, "Graphics"
        Sao Paulo, Brazil, "7th International Bienniale"
1962 Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, Texas, "The Artist's Environment:
                West Coast" (also exhibited at the Art Galleries: University of California,
                Los Angeles and the Oakland Museum)
        Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles
        "Lithographs from the Tamarind Lithography Workshop"
        Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "American Painting"
1961 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, "Direction in Twentieth Century American Painting"
        Mexico D.F., "Pan American Biennale"
1960 Silvan Simone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "The Insiders"
                (also exhibited at the Cober Gallery, New York)
        University of California, Los Angeles, "Fifty Paintings by Thirty-seven Painters
                of the Los Angeles Area"
1959 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Biennial"(following years: 1961, 1963)
        "New Directions in Painting"
        The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, "2nd Biennial of American Painting & Sculpture"
                (in collaboration with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts)
        Museum of Modern Art, New York, "New Images of Man"
        The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, "Masterpieces of Art, W.R.
                Valentiner Memorial Exhibition"
1958 Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
        Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas, "Religious Art of the Western World"
1957 University of Illinois, Urbana, "Twentieth Century Works of Art"
        Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, "Paintings by Artists of the West Coast"
1956 Association Francaise d'action artistique, Paris, "Sessins Americains Contemporains"
        University of Utah, Salt Lake City, "Survey", following years: 1957, 1958
        Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Expressionism 1900-1955"
        Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, "20th Century Drawings"
1955 Denver Art Museum, Colorado, "Annual" (following year: 1956)
1954 Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris, "Le dessin contemporain aux Etats Unica"
        The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, "Masterpieces of Religious Art"
1953 Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil, "2nd International Beinal"
                (following year: "3rd International Bienal" 1954)
        Calcutta University Institute (organized by ALI-India Art & Crafts Society Calcutta, India)
        Park Lane House, London, "The Christian Theme in Contemporary Arts"
1952 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, New York,
                "Expressionism in American Painting"
1951 Los Angeles County Museum, California, "Contemporary Paintings in the United States"
        Brooklyn Museum, New York, "Revolution & Tradition"
        University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, "40 American Painting"
1950 Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, "First International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography"
        The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, "American Painting Today"
        Venice, Italy, "Venice Biennale"
1949 California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, "Annual"
                (following years: 1950, 1951, 1952)
        Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, "Milestones of American Painting in                           our Century", (also exhibited at the Art Association of Montreal, Canada,
                Cleveland Museum of Art, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, LACMA & M.H. DeYoung                          Memorial Museum, San Francisco)
        Los Angeles County Museum, California, "Artists of California"
        Toronto Art Gallery, Canada, "Contemporary Art in Great Britain, France & the U.S.A."
1946 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado "New Accessions USA"
                (following years: 1948, 1950, 1952, 1958)
        Los Angeles County Museum, California, "Artists of Los Angeles & Vicinity"
                (following year: 1950)
1945 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Twentieth Century Drawings"
        City Art Museum of Saint Louis, Missouri, "38th Annual Exhibition"
        Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Pittsburgh International Exhibition of
                Contemporary Art" (following years: 1952, 1955, 1959)
        Los Angeles County Museum, California, "First International Exhibition of Contemporary Art"
1944 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Modern Drawings"
        Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "American Art Annual" (Painting)
                (following years: 1948, 1950, 1952, 1957, 1958, 1960)
1943 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Romantic Paintings in America"
        The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, "Annual Exhibition"
                (following years:1951, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1962)
1942 Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Americans 1942: 18 Artists from 9 States"
                (also exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art)
1941 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado, "Artists West of the Mississippi"
                (following years: 1947, 1948, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957,1959)
        The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, "Annual Exhibition of American Paintings"
                (following years: 1942, 1948, 1951, 1960)
1940 University of Illinois, Urbana, "Contemporary American Paintings"
                (following years: 1951, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963)
1939 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "American Art Annual" (drawings)
                (following years: 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1946,
                1947, 1948, 1950, 1952, 1960, 1962)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Philips Academy, Addison Gallery of American Art, Providence, R.I.
Pomona College Art Gallery (Genesis Mural), Claremont, CA
Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence, R.I.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
St. Paul Gallery and School of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota
Syracuse University, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Center (Crucifixion Triptych), Syracuse, NY
The Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, IL
University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

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                vol. 26, 1952, pp. 228-229, ill.
        "Rico Lebrun" Current Biography, Summer 1952, ill
        "Wins 1952 Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts and Letters" Art Digest,
                vol. 26, no. 16, May 15, 1952, p. 10
        Seldis, Henry J. "Rico Lithographs" Santa Barbara News-Press, Nov. 9, sec. C.
1951 "Art: Big Shocker" Time, vol. 57, March 19, 1951, p. 65. ill.
        "Crucifixion Mural by Rico Lebrun to be Shown" NY Times, Feb. 22, p. 29
        P.B. "A Lebrun Profile", Art Digest, May 1, 1951. ill
        Breuning, Margaret "NY Calvary Cycle" Art Digest, vol. 25, no. 15, May 1 p. 17, ill
        Garth, John, "Art World: Lebrun at De Young" The Argonaut, Nov., p. 18
        Genauer, Emily "Art and Artists", New York Herald Tribune, Mar. 4, sec. 4, p.8, ill.
        Forty American Painters, 1940-1950, The University Gallery, Department of Art,
                University of Minnesota, 1951
        Frankenstein, Alfred "Lebrun's Crucifixion" San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 4, 1951,
                This Word Magazine Section, p. 23
        "Museum of Modern Art Shows R. Lebrun Crucifixion Triptych" New York Times,
                March 4, 1951, part 2, p. 9
        Neumeyer, Alfred "Rico Lebrun Hailed as Powerful Artist" Santa Barbara News-Press,
                July 15, 1951, section B. pp. 1-2, ill
        "Portrait" Art News, vol. 49, Jan. 1951, p. 43
1950 "Art" Time, vol. 55, no. 24, June 12, 1950, p. 50. ill
        Bear, Donald "Lebrun Paints a Picture" Art News, vol. 49, no. 8, Dec. 1950,
                pp. 36-37, 39, 59, ill.
        Boyd, E. Arts and Architecture, vol. 67, no. 3, March 1950, p. 8
        Breuning, Margaret "Lebrun, Lean but Rich" Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 13, April 1, p. 17, ill.
        Bulletin, Philadelphia Art Alliance, vol. 29, Nov. 1950, pp. 7, 12, ill.
        Burrows, Carlyle "Art Week: Lebrun Strong in Conviction" NY Herald Tribune, April 2
        Devree, Howard New York Times, April 12, 1950
        "Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings of the Crucifixion in Los Angeles" Art News,
                vol. 49, no. 8, Dec. 1950, p. 53, ill.
        First International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography, Cincinnati Art Museum,, ill.
        F. (Frankfurter), A. (Alfred) M. "Rico Lebrun's" Art News, vol. 49, no. 2, April, p. 43.
        Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Seven Americans Open in Venice" Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 17,
                June 1, 1950, p. 4
        Genauer, Emily "Americans at Venice" Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 17, June 1, p. 4
        Hale, Robert Beverly 100 American Painters of the Twentieth Century New York:
                The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950
        Langsner, Jules "Art News from Los Angeles" Art News, vol. 48, no. 9, Jan., p. 52
        Langsner, Jules "Lebrun's Hugh Crucifixion Murals" Los Angeles Times, Dec. 10, ill.
        L. J. and Boyd, E. "Lebrun" Arts and Architecture, vol. 67, no. 12, Dec. 1950, pp. 25-27, ill
        "Major Art Exhibition Set for Museum Debut" Los Angeles Times, Nov. 30, 1950, part 2, ill
        Millier, Arthur "Lebrun's Hot Anger against Cruelty" Art Digest, vol 25, no.6, Dec. 15, p. 13, ill.
        Millier, Arthur "Los Angeles Events" Art Digest, vol 24, no.8, Jan. 15, 1950, p. 4
        Millier, Arthur "Shock Power Marks Crucifixion Series" LA Times, Dec. 10, 1950, ill.
        Nine Paintings by Rico Lebrun (introduction by William R. Velentiner), New York: Jacques                         Seligmann and Co., Inc. 1950, ill
        Pearson, Ralph M. "A Modern Viewpoint" Art Digest, vol. 24, no. 14, April 15, 1950, p. 6
        Pearson, Ralph M. The Modern Renaissance in the USA Part III "Rico Lebrun" Nyak, NY:
                Design Workshop, 1952, pp. 8-13 ill
        Rico Lebrun: Paintings and Drawings of the Crucifixion, LA County Museum, ill.
        Ross, Kenneth "LA County Museum Premiere Timely", LA Daily News, Dec. 9
        Von Groschwitz, Gustave "Full-Color Comeback" Art News, vol. 49, no. 2, April, p. 30, ill.
1949 Bouchage, Luc. "Lebrun's Crucifixion" Harper's Bazaar, April 1949, pp. 142-143. ill.
        "Drawings by Rico Lebrun" Gallery News, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art,
                Kansas City, vol. 16, Nov. 1949, p. 3. ill.
        "Lebrun Drops Grace for Torturous Force" Los Angeles Times, Dec. 25, 1949
        Wight, Frederick S. Milestones of American Painting in Our Century. New York:
                Chanticleer Press, Inc., 1949
1947 Barefoot, Spencer "The Arts Exhibits in Review" San Francisco Chronicle, Aug.
        Bear, Donald "Rico Lebrun Works Reveals Skill, Strength, Integrity" Santa Barbara
                News-Press, July 13, 1947, part C, pp. 1-2
        Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Two States of the Union" Art News, vol. 46, no. 9, part I, Nov.
                pp. 14-16, 60. ill.
        Gallery News, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Vol. 13, no. 7, April
        Genauer, Emily "This Week in Art: Chicago Show Proves Abstract Art in US
                Stronger than Ever"
        New York World Telegram, Nov. 8, 1947
        "Rico Lebrun Wins Honor in Chicago Exhibition" Santa Barbara News-Press,
                Nov. 16, 1947, part C, p. 10
        Ross, Kenneth "Art and Artists: Distinguished Drawings by Rico Lebrun"
                Pasadena Star News, June 15, 1947, p. 21.
        "Art News of the Year" Art News Annual XVIII, 1948, p. 140, ill
        Hess, Thomas B. "The Whitney: Exhibit Abstract" Art News, vol. 47, no. 8, Dec. 1948, pp.
                24, 25, 59, 62. ill.
        "Lebrun Rated Areas Artist of Distinction" Los Angeles Times, Sept. 12, 1948, part 4, p. 4.                 Loucheim, Aline b. "Art in California", New York Times, August 29, 1949, ill.
        Millier, Arthur, "Crucifixion Drawing Show Lack of Feeling" Los Angeles Times,
                Dec. 26, part 4, p. 5. ill
        Millier, Arthur "Youth Keeps Southland's Art Display" Los Angeles Times, May 23, ill.
        Riley, Maude Kemper "Art is Everywhere" Progressive Architecture, Dec., p. 8
1946 Bear, Donald "Santa Barbara Museum of Art marks Fifth Anniversary" Art Digest,
                vol. 20, no. 18, July 1, 1946, p. 5. ill.
        Bouchage, Luc "Louvre to California" Art News, vol. 45, no. 8, Oct. 1946, p. 33. ill.
        Chase, Edward L. Intelligent Drawing, New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1946. pp. 59-61, ill.
1945 "38th Annual Exhibition of American Painting" Bulletin, City Art Museum of St. Louis,
                vol. 29, no. 3-4, 1945
1944 Frost, Rosamund "The Whitney Does it Again" Art News, vol. 43, Nov. 15, pp. 9-10. ill.
        New York Times. January 23, 1944, part II, p. 7.
        Rewald, John & Wheeler, Monroe. Modern Drawing. New York: Museum of Modern Art.ill.
1943 Soby, James Thrall and Miller, Dorothy C. Romantic Painting in America. New York:
                Museum of Modern Art, 1943, p. 183
1942 "American Paintings and Sculpture" Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition Calendar, no. 23,
                Oct. 29-Dec. 10, 1942, p. 25
        Frankenstein, Alfred "An Art in Various Strange Shapes" San Francisco Chronicle,
                May 24, 1942
        Miller, Dorothy C. Americans 1942: Eighteen Artist from Nine States New York:
                Museum of Modern Art, 1942. pp. 79-85, ill.
1941 Bear, Donald. "Rico Lebrun" Pacific Art Review, vol. 3-4, Winter 1941-42, pp. 8-13, ill.
        "American Paintings and Sculpture" Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition Calendar, no. 19,
                July 17-October 5, 1941, p. 27.
1940 Frankenstein, Alfred San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 1, 1940
        Pauling, Litti. "Diversity of Mediums and Style Adds Interest to Exhibition at Faulkner"
                The Santa Barbara News-Press, Feb. 10, 1940, pp. 11-12
1938 "Rico Lebrun to Teach in California" Magazine of Art, vol. 31, no.12, Dec. 1938, p. 718
1935 Rico Lebrun New York: The Art Students League of New York (1935)