Leno Prestini

Painting, Visual Artist

1906 – 1963

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Who was Leno Prestini?

Leno Prestini was an artist from Clayton, Washington in the 1920s - 1960s. Many of his paintings are on display in museums throughout the Pacific Northwest including the Keller Heritage Center Museum and Park in Colville, Washington and the Old Schoolhouse Museum in Loon Lake, WA. Prestini was also a sculptor. He sculpted the ram's heads that adorn the The Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington. In 1965, his estate donated a 60 foot totem pole to the Spokane Interstate Fair.

To many he seemed to be an energetic, happy man with eccentric tendencies. He designed and built his own underwater diving equipment and tried to aid local police in finding a dead body in a lake around the area. Though seen as energetic and happy, Leno Prestini committed suicide by a self-inflicted bullet wound to the head. He lingered for almost a month, until April 26, 1963, but never regained consciousness. He was 57 years old.

Some of his works, Page 1939, Page 1940 and Page 1941 depicted the horror that would become World War II, painted in the years before the war began, focusing on the dangers of Adolf Hitler.

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Born
Feb 4, 1906
Nationality
  • United States of America
Died
Apr 26, 1963

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on July 23, 2013

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