Biografie von Leon R. PESCHERET (1892-1961)

Birth place: Chiswick, England

Addresses: Whitewater, WI

Profession: Etcher, craftsperson, designer, illustrator, writer, lecturer

Studied: Battersea Polytechnic, London; AIC; Royal Col. of Engraving, Kensington, England; Malcolm Osborn & Roger Hebbelinck.

Exhibited: Younker Bros. Tea Room Galleries, 1935 (solo); Smithsonian Inst.; Chicago SE, 1935 (prize), 1936 (prize); Southern PM Soc., 1936 (prize)-37 (prize); Buck Hills AA, 1948-49; Chicago Galleries Assn., 1951. Awards: Lila Mae Chapman award, 1936, 1937; Grand Central Galleries, 1937 (award)

Member: Chicago Soc. Etchers; Printmakers Soc. of California; Am. CoIor Print Soc.; Soc. Am. Printmakers; Palette & Chisel Cl., Chicago; Print Council of Am.; Calif. Soc. Etchers

Work: designs, interior, Mem. Union Bldg., Univ. Wisconsin; Peoria Country Cl.; Kenyon Col. Union Bldg., Gambier, Ohio; British Mus.; LOC; Cabinet du Roi, Brussels; Nat. Collection FA, Wash., DC; NYPL; AIC; presentation prints for Am. Color Print Soc., 1943; Buck Hills AA, 1947; Chicago Soc. Etchers, 1956; Printmakers Soc. of California, 1958.

Comments: Author/illustrator, Principle and Practice of Interior Decorating; An Introduction to Color Etching. Illustrator, The Spirit of Vienna, 1935; Chicago Welcomes You, 1933. Contributor of color etchings to American Artist and Arizona Highways magazines.

Sources: WW59; WW40; Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 165-66.