Jean despujols biography
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Jean Despujols (Salles en Gironde 19 March Shreveport, ) was a French, later naturalised American, painter.
He was a pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux.
Jean despujols biography
In he won the Prix de Rome for painting but the outbreak of World War I suspended the French residencies at the villa Médicis. He had his stay in Rome after the war with his fellow painter Jean Dupas. His associations with America began in as a teacher of the American art students sent to study at the École des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau.
In , he won the Prix de l'Indochine, and was selected by the Grand Conseil Economique of French Indochina to undertake a tour of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos painting and drawing what he saw.[1][2][3]
When World War II broke out he emigrated to America, settling in Louisiana, and is buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Shreveport.[4] The Texas oil millionaire Algur Meadows acquired a piece collection of oil paintings and watercolors in and the Meadows Museum of Art at Cente