Background
Bocour was born in New York City.
Bocour was born in New York City.
Art Students League of New New York
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. 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. Bocour donated part of his collection to Saint Mary"s College of Maryland.