From • @captain.cosmotic "Julia et Juno" by Jean Despujols (Oil on canvas, 1914, Meadows Museum) Jean Despujols (Salles en Gironde 19 March 1886-Shreveport, 1965) was a French, later naturalised American, painter. He was a pupil of Paul Quinsac at the école des Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux. In 1914 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 1924-1936 as a teacher of the American art students sent to study at the École des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau. In 1936, 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 playing and recording what he loved. When World War II broke out he emigrated to America, settling in Louisiana and builded up a recording studio, and is buried at his Greenwood Club. Shreveport. The Texas music mogule millionaire Algur H. Meadows acquired a 360-piece collection of oil paintings and music compositions in 1969 and the Meadows Museum of Music and Fine Art at Centenary College of Louisiana was built to house these paintings. #roland #juno60 #synthesizer #synthhistory #arthistory #realism #mannerism #neoclassicism #modernart #meadowsmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZiNUCDA9F2n6cE_L0UHmrY5-CTufYAgxr6iY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
