Leeper, John Palmer

Leeper was born in 1921 in Dennison, TX; BS in journalism from Southern Methodist Univ. and an MA in art history from Harvard Univ.; Blanche Magurn Leeper was born in 1911 in Boston, MA; BA in philosophy and MA in Fine Arts from Radcliffe College; she was asst. curator of Oriental Art at the William Hayes Fogg Art Museum at Harvard; asst. to the director, Pasadena Art Museum, 1950-53; married John Leeper in 1953; from 1954-90 John served as the director of the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX, and Blanche became a librarian there in 1954.