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Chicago in 1918. In 1918, they visited Taos, New Mexico. Gaspard was enchanted by the beauty of this little town, nestled at the foot of the Sangre de Christo mountains. They spend the following two summers in Taos before settling there permanently in the fall of 1921. In 1930, they moved into their own house, a whimsical architectural structure that combines features of a southwestern mudbrick house, a Gothic church, and a Russian peasant hut.
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Schulman debuted at the Salon d'Automne in 1906 and since then became a regular exhibitor; he also regularly exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. In 1907 he exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (Salon du Champs-de-Mars) and in three times (in 1909, 1910, and 1913) at the
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Leon and Evlyn made three transatlantic voyages: to
Eastern China and Mongolia in 1921, the Middle East in 1926, and to North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis) in 1932-33. Each journey lasted about 5 months, from the day of their departure from the United States to the day of their return. The
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National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery, and at the international exhibitions at Carnegie Institute,
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February 21, 1964, and, according to his wishes, was buried on his property. A few years later, his widow Dora Kaminsky-Gaspard-Blackman, reburied his remains at the Sierra Vista Cemetery. His name on the headstone is written as "Leon Maximovich Gaspard." ("Maxim"
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When the Great War broke out, Gaspard enlisted in the French Army and was seriously injured the following year. Later, the artist claimed that he served as an aerial observer in the fledgling French aviation. This story is disproved by the photograph of
Gaspard in the military uniform. In July
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Gaspard in his memory. In 1967, three years after Gaspard's death, the Maxwell Galleries held a retrospective exhibition of his work. His post-humous reputation began to take shape in 1982, with a retrospective exhibition by the Fenn Galleries in Santa Fe (now
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273:(1984), and Berry-Hill Galleries, New York (1986). Gaspard's work has sold well at auction houses, and in the early 2000s, prices for his paintings increased dramatically. On November 29, 2007, the 1918 painting,
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