Dabo, Leon, b. 1868 d. 1960

Landscape painter, Muralist, Painter
New York, N.Y. (Show Bio)

Leon Dabo papers, 1905-1969 and [undated]

153 items (partially microfilmed on 4 reels)
Reel(s): 677, 692, D388 and N69-137

Letters, biographical material; photographs; bibliography material; exhibition catalogs and announcements; oil studies; typescript article; clippings; and Dabo's palette.

REEL 677: Correspondence with the Detroit Museum of Art concerning Dabo's work and that of his younger brother, Theodore Scott Dabo; biographical material and awards; catalogs and announcements; clippings; 14 oil studies of classic figures, ca. 1880; material relating to James McNeill Whistler forgeries verified by Dabo; and 14 miscellaneous papers.

REEL D388: A selected bibliography for the years 1905-1967; 8 photographs of Dabo; a list of exhibitions; 2 articles on Dabo; 3 exhibition catalogs; a poem "To Leon Dabo" by Helen Hay Whitney; and a typewritten article entitled "Reflections," probably written by Dabo.

REEL N69-137, frames 5715-5743: Letters, catalogs, biographical notes, and some material on Theodore Scott Dabo.

REEL 692: 11 photographs of Dabo's work and 3 photographs of Dabo.

UNMICROFILMED: Photographs, including 1 of students and Dabo at an Academie Julian dinner at the Beauvort Hotel, ca. 1914; 4 of Dabo standing by airplanes in aviatation gear, ca. 1917. Also included is a an oil study; and another of an oil painting. Also included are 3 James McNeill Whistler brushes, 1 walking stick and 1 palette.

Donated 1969-1972 by Mrs. Leon Dabo.

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