Photo: Dabo in 1909, by E.O. Hoppé Leon Dabo’s own descendants have heard little about him. Dabo, a French-born painter, died in 1960, at 96, after a restless career living in and around New York and in Europe and exhibiting in hundreds of group and solo shows. His early subjects were saints, and later he favored twilit riverbanks, battlefields, bouquets and eerie pastures striped with dead trees. Dabo ended up estranged from his family, and he has largely fallen off the radar of art art historians. Albert Douglas, 91, Dabo’s only grandson, told art... (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/arts/design/restoration-project-a-history-of-leon-dabo.html) Leon Dabo (July 9, 1864- Nov. 7, 1960); American tonalist landscape artist best known for his paintings of New York, particularly the Hudson Valley. His paintings were known for their feeling of spaciousness, with large areas of the canvas that had little but land, sea, or clouds. During his peak, he was considered a master of his art... His brother, Scott Dabo, was also a noted painter. Dabo, the eldest of 3 brothers (he also had 5 sisters), was possibly born in Paris, France but recently available documents state he was born in Saverne. The year and location of his birth varies widely. Contemporaneous sources state he was born in Detroit in 1868, in 1869, in 1870, or in Grosse Pointe in 1874.... ...in New York in 1890 [he] began his career as a muralist, but by the beginning of the 20th century had turned to painting landscapes instead. For years, Dabo's paintings were rejected for exhibition by the major juries of the United States, until respected French painter Edmond Aman-Jean recognized his talents and began showing Dabo's work in France, whereupon he became a major success. ...After the war, his artistic output decreased. He began to feel that American men had become too materialistic, but women, he felt, were of a more spiritual nature, and could "save" art ... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Dabo) undefined

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