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Robert Lebron (March 13, 1928 - August 31, 2013)〔Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-Current (on-line ). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.〕 was an American impressionist artist. He was born in New York City, where he attended New York City's High School of Music and Arts. He also went on to study at the Art's Students' League for five years. Lebron developed his own personal technique after several extensive stays in Europe, relying on the use of a palette knife rather than brushes.〔Rolon, Albert. "Robert Lebron". Outskirts Press 2014〕 Lebron has painted in Europe, particularly London and Paris, in Italy and Spain, in Canada and Mexico. He won such awards as the Forbes Magazine Award (travel grant), and he has had one-man shows at the Galeria Studio in Madrid and in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois and in his home city ( NYC).〔Woods, Vivian. "Arts and Artists". Las Vegas Review-Journal 10 February 1974〕 Most of his paintings feature favorite characters from his childhood including a tiny dog present in most of his paintings, inspired by the comic strip Dickie Dare. His paintings of the Donner Party are exhibited at the Emigrant Trail Museum at Donner Memorial State Park in Truckee, California.〔Christina LaFortune, ("Local Authors Roundup: Artist imagines conversation between masters" ), ''Florida Today'', November 17, 2012 .〕 The series of four paintings deals with the struggles of the infamous Donner Party and were commissioned and donated to the museum by Dan Johnson, a Donner Party historian.〔"Museum open house to be highlight by Donner Party art" Sierra Sun (California ) 22 April 1982 p10〕 These paintings were also featured on the History Channel's "Snowbound in the Sierras".〔Garbus, Kelly "Jesse James lures painter to Liberty" The Kansas City Star 16 August 2006〕 One of his paintings of Wall Street was used as part of an answer in the (Feb. 19, 2013 episode ) of the game show ''Jeopardy!'' In 2012, Lebron published a fictional novel entitled "The Da Vinci-Picasso Dialogue".〔Belcher, Lou http://www.floridabooknews.com/2012/11/book-signing-at-art-gallery-of-viera.html Florida Book News, Nov. 15, 2012〕 ==References== 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「Robert Lebron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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