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Birth
1908
Death
1981
Lived/Active
New York
Photo submitted by Paul J. Yudell
Often Known For
abstraction, figure, genre
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An artist for the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, Leo Lances was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists Group in 1937.
His talent was recognized early. By the age of ten, he was awarded a scholarship to Pratt Institute and then attended the Art Students' League where he was influenced by Vaclav Vytlacil. He then spent several years studying painting with modernist Jan Matulka. In 1932, he studied briefly with Hans Hofmann and then ended his formal art training to p (showing 500 of 1892 characters). |
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