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Frank Xavier Leyendecker (January 19, 1876 – April 18, 1924), also known as
Frank James Leyendecker, was an American illustrator. He worked with his
brother
Joseph Christian Leyendecker, in their studio, first in Chicago,[1]
then later in New York City and New Rochelle, New York.
He was born in Germany on January 19, 1876, as Franz Xavier Leyendecker.
One group of artists occupying the top-floor studios of the Fine Arts Building in Chicago, coveted for their capacious skylights, formed the Little Room, a mixed-gender social club whose founding members included painters, writers and other artists, many of whom were gay, like J. C. Leyendecker and his brother Frank Xavier Leyendecker. Fostered by novelists Hamlin Garland and Henry Blake Fuller, The Little Room met on Friday afternoons and occasional evenings. Among the members were George Ade, H.C. Chatfield-Taylor, Alice Gerstenberg, James T. Hatfield, Franklin Harvey Head, John T. McCutcheon, Anna Morgan, Allen Bartlit Pond, Henry Kitchell Webster, Lorado Taft, Lou Wall Moore, Jane Addams, Harriet Monroe and Edith Wyatt.
Frank Leyendecker and his sister Augusta lived for a period of time with J. C. Leyendecker and the model Charles Beach in New Rochelle.[2]
He studied for a time at the Académie Julian in France.[3] He was known for his stained glass work as well as his illustrations for posters, magazines and advertisements. Leyendecker served as the judge in the first Strathmore Water Color Contest, sponsored by the Mittineague Paper Company of Massachusetts.[4] His work was described as an "important feature" of the second exhibition of the Society of Illustrators at the International gallery in New York.[5]
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Studebaker Building/Fine Arts Building, 410-418 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605
Leyendecker was suffering from depression and poor health due to his ongoing drug addiction, when he most likely committed suicide by morphine overdose on April 18, 1924, at the age of 48.[6]
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