Louis Bouché
American, 1896 - 1969
(not assigned)New York, New York
SchoolLandscape, Genre painting
BiographyA long-time teacher at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1934 to 1969, he was a painter of realistic genre city scenes. He also directed the Belmaison Gallery in New York where he showed work by emerging French and American artists. He was born in New York and studied with Frank DuMond, Richard Miller and Luis Mora at the Art Students League and with Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Returning to New York, he had a highly successful career depicting life around him.
In 1933, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. For many years he kept a studio on West Tenth Street and also painted murals at Radio City Music Hall, the Justice and Interior Departments in Washington D.C., and the Eisenhower Foundation building in Abilene, Kansas.
In 1970, The American Academy of Arts and Letters included his work in a memorial exhibition. (Source: Archives of Askart.com, Accessed April 23, 2004, http://www.askart.com)
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