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| name = Lucien Labaudt
| name = Lucien Labaudt
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| caption = ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' artist-correspondent Lucien Lambaudt (December 1943)
| birth_name = Lucien Adolphe Labaudt<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500000057 |title=Labaudt, Lucien Adolphe|website=Getty Museum|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|05|14|mf=yes}}<ref name="fine">{{cite web|url=https://store.sternfinearts.com/lula1.html |title=Lucien Labaudt (1880-1943)|website=George Stern Fine Arts|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
| birth_name = Lucien Adolphe Labaudt<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500000057 |title=Labaudt, Lucien Adolphe|website=Getty Museum|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|05|14|mf=yes}}<ref name="fine">{{cite web|url=https://store.sternfinearts.com/lula1.html |title=Lucien Labaudt (1880-1943)|website=George Stern Fine Arts|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>
| birth_place = Paris, France
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| birth_place = Paris, France
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| death_place = [[Assam]], India
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| occupation = Painter
| occupation = Painter, educator, muralist, artist-news correspondent
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[[File:Beach Chalet murals (3905185643).jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Detail of one of Labaudt's frescos at the [[Beach Chalet]] in [[Golden Gate Park]], created for the [[Federal Art Project]] (1936–1937)]]
[[File:Lucien Labaudt - W-2, 1935.jpg|thumb|Lucien Labaudt - W-2 (1935)]]
'''Lucien Adolphe Labaudt''' (May 14, 1880 - December 12, 1943) was a French-born American painter based in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name="laeveningcitizennewsobit">{{cite news |title=Artist Lucien Labaudt Loses Life In Plane Crash Near Burma Border |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/683827800/?terms=%22Lucien%20Labaudt%22&match=1 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |date=December 15, 1943|page=1|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
'''Lucien Adolphe Labaudt''' (May 14, 1880 December 12, 1943) was a French-born American painter based in [[San Francisco, California]].<ref name="laeveningcitizennewsobit">{{cite news |title=Artist Lucien Labaudt Loses Life In Plane Crash Near Burma Border |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/683827800/?terms=%22Lucien%20Labaudt%22&match=1 |access-date=May 4, 2021 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |date=December 15, 1943|page=1|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> His best-known work may be ''Powell Street'' (1934), a mural in fresco at [[Coit Tower]] that he created for the [[Public Works of Art Project]].<ref name="Life"/>


==Biography==
==Biography==
Labaudt was born in Paris on May 14, 1880.<ref name="laeveningcitizennewsobit"/> In 1906, he emigrated to the United States and first settled in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. In 1910, he moved to [[San Francisco]] in a studio. In 1919, Labaudt started teaching at the [[California School of Fine Arts]].<ref name="fine"/> He painted two murals in the lobby of the courthouse on [[Spring Street (Los Angeles)|Spring Street]] in Los Angeles: ''Life on the Old Spanish and American Ranchos'' in 1938 and ''Aerodynamism'' in 1941.<ref name="livingnewdealuscourthouse">{{cite web |title=U. S. COURTHOUSE, WESTERN DIVISION: LABAUDT MURALS – LOS ANGELES CA |url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/u-s-courthouse-western-division-aerodynamism-mural-los-angeles-ca/ |website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref> On December 12, 1943, he died in a plane crash in [[India]] while working for [[Life magazine]].<ref name="fine"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/nine-artists-who-lost-their-lives-on-the-battlefield.htm |title=Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield|website=History Net|date=24 March 2020|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref> His widow opened the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery in San Francisco posthumously.<ref name="archiveslucien">{{cite web |title=Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers, 1896-1987 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/lucien-and-marcelle-labaudt-papers-7257 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref> His work can be seen at the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].<ref name="sfmomalabaudt">{{cite web |title=Lucien Labaudt |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/lucien_labaudt/ |website=SFMOMA |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref>
Labaudt was born in Paris on May 14, 1880.<ref name="laeveningcitizennewsobit"/> In 1906, he emigrated to the United States and first settled in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]. In 1910, he moved to [[San Francisco]] in a studio. In 1919, Labaudt started teaching at the [[California School of Fine Arts]].<ref name="fine"/> One of his students was painter [[Nell Sinton]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=Heller |first1=Jules |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ReZkAgAAQBAJ |title=North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary |last2=Heller |first2=Nancy G. |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-63889-4 |pages=1692–1693 |language=en}}</ref>

He painted two murals in the lobby of the [[Spring Street Courthouse]] in Los Angeles: ''Life on the Old Spanish and American Ranchos'' in 1938 and ''Aerodynamism'' in 1941.<ref name="livingnewdealuscourthouse">{{cite web |title=U.S. Courthouse, Western Division: Labaudt Murals – Los Angeles CA |url=https://livingnewdeal.org/projects/u-s-courthouse-western-division-aerodynamism-mural-los-angeles-ca/ |website=The Living New Deal |publisher=Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref>

Labaudt was one of a select number of civilian artists invited to join the [[United States Army Art Program]] in World War II. He was appointed to the program in April 1943, and assigned to the [[China Burma India Theater]]. When the Army's War Art Unit was abruptly eliminated by Congress, he joined the war art program of ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' magazine. He left Los Angeles for India in September 1943, traveling for two months aboard a [[Liberty ship]] carrying a cargo of dynamite.<ref>{{cite news|date=October 15, 1944 |title=Lucien Labaudt Exhibition |url= |work=[[Oakland Tribune]] |page=22 }}</ref> He was killed in a plane crash in [[Assam]] on December 12, 1943, en route to China, where he had been assigned to capture scenes of [[Merrill's Marauders|guerrilla warfare]]. Labaudt was the first war correspondent killed in that theatre<ref>{{cite news |date=December 16, 1943 |title=U.S. Artist is Killed in India Plane Crash |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/12/16/archives/us-artist-is-killed-in-india-plane-crash-labaudt-was-on-way-to.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=November 2, 2022}}</ref> and the only ''Life'' artist-correspondent to die in the war. None of his sketches or personal effects survived.<ref name="Life">{{cite magazine |last=Sheets |first=Millard |author-link=Millard Sheets |date=January 3, 1944 |title=Letters to the Editor |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2 |magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]] |page=2 |access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/theydrewfire/resources/artists.html |title=Why Send Artists into Combat? |last= |first= |date= |website=They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref><ref name="fine"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historynet.com/nine-artists-who-lost-their-lives-on-the-battlefield.htm |title=Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield|website=History Net|date=24 March 2020|access-date=4 May 2021}}</ref>

==Legacy==
A [[List of Liberty ships (Je–L)|Liberty ship]] named the SS ''Lucien Labaudt'' was christened at [[Richmond Shipyards]] on April 7, 1944.<ref name="Artforum"/>

In 1946, Labaudt's widow Marcelle opened the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery at 1407 Gough Street in San Francisco.<ref name="archiveslucien">{{cite web |title=Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers, 1896–1987 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/lucien-and-marcelle-labaudt-papers-7257 |website=Archives of American Art |publisher=Smithsonian |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Artforum">{{cite magazine |last=Fuller |first=Mary |date=August 1962 |title=Lucien Labaudt: In Memorium |url=https://www.artforum.com/print/196208/lucien-labaudt-in-memoriam-73073 |magazine=[[Artforum]] |pages=24–25 |access-date=November 1, 2022}}</ref> His work can be seen at the [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].<ref name="sfmomalabaudt">{{cite web |title=Lucien Labaudt |url=https://www.sfmoma.org/artist/lucien_labaudt/ |website=SFMOMA |access-date=May 4, 2021}}</ref>


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==External links==
Lucien Labaudt | http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/cara/ucb/text/Cara_Volume_19.pdf
Lucien Labaudt in the OMCA collections | http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a8221|title = A82.2.1 &#124
Lucien Labaudt in the OMCA collections | http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a8721|title = A87.2.1 &#124


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* [https://livingnewdeal.org/artists/lucien-labaudt/ Lucien Labaudt] at [[The Living New Deal]]
*Lucien Labaudt | http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/cara/ucb/text/Cara_Volume_19.pdf
*Lucien Labaudt ''L'Atelier'', oil on canvas ,1931, in the OMCA collections | http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a8221
*Lucien Labaudt ''Couch'', mahogany furniture, 1930, in the OMCA collections | http://collections.museumca.org/?q=collection-item/a8721


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Latest revision as of 22:26, 28 September 2024

Lucien Labaudt
Life artist-correspondent Lucien Lambaudt (December 1943)
Born
Lucien Adolphe Labaudt[1]

(1880-05-14)May 14, 1880[2]
Paris, France
DiedDecember 12, 1943(1943-12-12) (aged 63)
Assam, India
Occupation(s)Painter, educator, muralist, artist-news correspondent
Detail of one of Labaudt's frescos at the Beach Chalet in Golden Gate Park, created for the Federal Art Project (1936–1937)

Lucien Adolphe Labaudt (May 14, 1880 – December 12, 1943) was a French-born American painter based in San Francisco, California.[3] His best-known work may be Powell Street (1934), a mural in fresco at Coit Tower that he created for the Public Works of Art Project.[4]

Biography

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Labaudt was born in Paris on May 14, 1880.[3] In 1906, he emigrated to the United States and first settled in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1910, he moved to San Francisco in a studio. In 1919, Labaudt started teaching at the California School of Fine Arts.[2] One of his students was painter Nell Sinton.[5]

He painted two murals in the lobby of the Spring Street Courthouse in Los Angeles: Life on the Old Spanish and American Ranchos in 1938 and Aerodynamism in 1941.[6]

Labaudt was one of a select number of civilian artists invited to join the United States Army Art Program in World War II. He was appointed to the program in April 1943, and assigned to the China Burma India Theater. When the Army's War Art Unit was abruptly eliminated by Congress, he joined the war art program of Life magazine. He left Los Angeles for India in September 1943, traveling for two months aboard a Liberty ship carrying a cargo of dynamite.[7] He was killed in a plane crash in Assam on December 12, 1943, en route to China, where he had been assigned to capture scenes of guerrilla warfare. Labaudt was the first war correspondent killed in that theatre[8] and the only Life artist-correspondent to die in the war. None of his sketches or personal effects survived.[4][9][2][10]

Legacy

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A Liberty ship named the SS Lucien Labaudt was christened at Richmond Shipyards on April 7, 1944.[11]

In 1946, Labaudt's widow Marcelle opened the Lucien Labaudt Art Gallery at 1407 Gough Street in San Francisco.[12][11] His work can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Labaudt, Lucien Adolphe". Getty Museum. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Lucien Labaudt (1880-1943)". George Stern Fine Arts. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Artist Lucien Labaudt Loses Life In Plane Crash Near Burma Border". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. December 15, 1943. p. 1. Retrieved May 4, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b Sheets, Millard (January 3, 1944). "Letters to the Editor". Life. p. 2. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  5. ^ Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. pp. 1692–1693. ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4.
  6. ^ "U.S. Courthouse, Western Division: Labaudt Murals – Los Angeles CA". The Living New Deal. Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
  7. ^ "Lucien Labaudt Exhibition". Oakland Tribune. October 15, 1944. p. 22.
  8. ^ "U.S. Artist is Killed in India Plane Crash". The New York Times. December 16, 1943. Retrieved November 2, 2022.
  9. ^ "Why Send Artists into Combat?". They Drew Fire: Combat Artists of World War II. PBS. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  10. ^ "Nine Artists Who Lost Their Lives on the Battlefield". History Net. 24 March 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  11. ^ a b Fuller, Mary (August 1962). "Lucien Labaudt: In Memorium". Artforum. pp. 24–25. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  12. ^ "Lucien and Marcelle Labaudt papers, 1896–1987". Archives of American Art. Smithsonian. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
  13. ^ "Lucien Labaudt". SFMOMA. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
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