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Margaret Lefranc (Schoonover) (March 15, 1907—September 5, 1998) was an American painter, illustrator and editor, an American Modernist with early training as a color Expressionist with classical training, and, according to Sharyn Udall, art historian, a woman “on the edge of the avant-garde.” She produced portraits, figures, florals, still lifes and landscapes in a variety of compositions reflecting her own view of the surrounding influences. Her media included oil, watercolor, gouache, pastel, drawing, etching and monotypes. At age eighteen, she received accolades from Alfred Stiegliz and, at twenty-two, received rave reviews in La Revue Moderne, November 1928 in Paris during exhibitions of “Dancer” and “Mme M. en Pyjama”— Self Portrait in Pajamas, 1929. Margaret Lefranc, was born in Brooklyn, New York, under the name of Margaret Frankel. Her parents, Abraham Frankel and Sophie Tiplitz Frankel were sixteen and seven respectively when they immigrated with their parents from Moscow and from the capitol of Georgia. Over the passing years during their marriage, Abraham owned a shirt factory, a shipping line, distributed Western films, built the Lowe’s theater in Brooklyn, owned other real estate and was the first person to have a small orchestra in vaudeville. They had four children, but one son died. They spent summers in Hunter, New York, at a farmhouse built in 1776 which Abraham purchased. Lefranc was oftentimes in poor health which made it difficult for her to attend school regularly. Lefranc was the youngest. Her sister, Celeste, had bought Margaret some plasticine from which Lefranc made a bas relief of an Indian head. At that age of six, she decided to become an artist. The Brooklyn home inspired the young artistic inclinations with colorful medallions and portraits of famous people on the library ceiling and a print of Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair on a wall. Margaret rode horses with her mother and learned jiu jitsu. Eventually her mother, tired from housekeeping, talked Abe into moving into two suites at the Hotel Pennsylvania located in Manhattan (across the street from Pennsylvania Station) where they could all eat in the hotel dining room if they had guests, or, if Margaret was alone, in the hotel cafeteria. Margaret spent a lot of time alone when she wasn’t in the hands of a caregiver. == Early Education and Berlin—1920-1921 == In Brooklyn Lefranc attend private schools, Adelphi Academy and Hunter College Model School. Later at the age of twelve and living at the Pennsylvania Hotel, she was chauffeured to her formal classes at the New York’s Art Students League where she attended for three or four hours. She worked in charcoal drawing reproductions. Abe’s shipping business closed with the beginning of World War I when one of his tankers was torpedoed by the Germans and the survivors were shot in their lifeboats. Life changed for the Frankels when Abe was commissioned by the U. S. Government to scrap the German fleet. The girl’s parents preceded her to Germany but left her in the care of Celeste, her sister, who was nine years older and married. Lefranc finished the last few months in school, and at the age of thirteen, traveled by freighter to join her parents in Berlin where she contracted Rheumatic fever. She spent almost a year in bed, didn’t speak German until six months later, and, at that time, wasn’t exposed to the masses of people dropping dead in the streets due to hunger. Abe built her a small studio on the roof of the apartment building. Between her bed and her studio, she drew in charcoals under the tutelage of a young art student who eventually told her parents to leave her alone and let her develop on her own. Once he brought an old woman he had met on the street to pose by Lefranc’s bedside for a small amount of money. By that time Lefranc was aware that the money from the sketch made it possible for the woman to buy some food. When Lefranc felt fairly well, she took classes in charcoal drawing and charcoal portraits at “Kunstschule des Westens” (School of the West). After a year in Berlin, the Frankel’s moved to Paris. Lefranc was determined at a young age that Paris was the only place for her to be since she was an artist. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Lefranc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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