Rico Lebrun

Life

Teaching

Awards

• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
• First Prize, "Abstract & Surrealist American Art", The Art Institute of Chicago
• Norman Wait Harris Silver Medal, The Art Institute of Chicago
• First Prize, "Artists of Los Angeles & Vicinity", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Purchase Prize, "Illinois National Exhibition of Contemporary Painting", University of Illinois
• Second Prize, "American Painting Today", The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Award of Merit of the American Academy of Arts & Letter for "Outstanding achievement in the past five years in paintings"
• Temple Gold Medal, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• Lippincott Prize, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• Elected into the National Academy of Design
• Purchase Award, "Third Biennial National Print Exhibit", Pasadena Art Museum
• Joseph Pennell Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

  Collections

• the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
• the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
• the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• the Whitney Museum of American Art,
• The Jewish Museum, New York,
• the North Carolina Museum of Art,
• the Pomona College Museum of Art,
• the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
• the Vincent Price museum of Art,
• the Harvard Art Museum,
• the Museo ItaloAmericano, and
• the Claremont Museum of Art.