Leon Gilmour
Leon Gilmour
1907 - 1996
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BiographyBorn in 1907 in Riga, Russia, Leon Gilmour was a laborer, before he became an artist. Gilmour studied wood engraving in 1931 with Paul Landacre. By 1939 he had completed “Cement Finishers”, a wood engraving depicting three laborers hard at work on one of the federal public works projects of the 1930s. [IFPDA]