Leonard Bocour

Leonard Bocour

Leonard Bocour was born in March 18, 1910 in New York City, and he died in September 6, 1993. Around 1933 he formed the New York City based company Bocour Artists Colors. He was the co-developer along with Sam Golden of Magna paint in the late 1940s. From 1952 until 1970 he and Sam Golden were partners in the Bocour Artists Colors Co. The company sold artist paints from the late 1930s until the 1990s. Many well known artists from Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning to Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland and hundreds of others bought paint from Leonard Bocour. The tubes of paint marked "Bocour" were watercolor or oil paint and the tubes labeled "Bellini" were oil paint. The acrylic paint was thick bodied and called "Aquatec."

He was a serious art collector, in addition to being a well known paint manufacturer. He collected and owned works by many of his now famous customers. [ [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/bocoleon.htm] accessed online August 31, 2007]

ee also

*Acrylic paint
*Sam Golden
*Golden Artist Colors
*Magna paint
*oil paint
*paint
*watercolor paint

References

External links

* [http://artarchives.si.edu/oralhist/bocour78.htm Interview from the 1970s]
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/findingaids/index.cfm/fuseaction/Collections.ViewCollection/CollectionID/6446 Leonard Bocour papers and business records at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art]


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