Leon Rene Pescheret Art

An illustrator, watercolorist, etcher, architect, writer, teacher and designer, Leon Pescheret was born in Chiswick, England. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Royal College of Engraving in Kensington, England. He learned the art of one-plate color etchings in Belgium, and at that time was believed to be the only etcher in the United States using that method. He was a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers, the American Color Print Society, the Society of American Printmakers and the Printmaker's Society of California. Pescheret exhibited with the Buck Hills Art Association in 1948 and 1949, the Southern Printmakers' Society in 1936 and 1937, winning prizes both years, the Chicago Galleries Association in 1951, the Chicago Society of Etchers in 1935, where he won a prize and also at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC in 1936. He was the recipient of the Lila Mae Chapman Award in 1936 and 1937, and the Grand Central Galleries Award. Pescheret's work is included in numerous museum collections, including Art Institute of Chicago, British Museum, Cabinet du Roi, Brussels, Cabinet des Estampes, Brussels, Library of Congress, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, New York Public Library, University of Michigan Museum of Art, MI, Whistler House Museum, MA and Wright Museum of Art, WI.