Rico Lebrun’s “Terrified Woman With Child”, which is currently owned by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, was dated by Lebrun as being created in the year 1947. However, Lebrun produced two other very similar drawings in 1948. His work “Running Figure” is currently owned by the Whitney Museum of American Art. This piece in particular seems extremely similar to “Terrified Woman With Child” as it uses the same medium, similar subject, and same type of paper. However, “Running Figure” has slightly different dimensions, has much thinner jagged line work, and is positioned more towards the right as opposed to being centered. The other similar piece is Lebrun’s “Running Woman With Child”. This piece uses the same medium, similar subject, and same style of line work as “Terrified Woman With Child”. However, it is unclear if “Running Woman With Child” used the same paper or the same dimensions. The only information on  “Running Woman With Child” is from Lebrun’s book “Rico Lebrun Drawings”. The book credits “Running Woman With Child” as being part of the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1961 (Page 13). However, it isn’t clear where this piece currently resides as the Whitney Museum of American Art does not seem to currently list it as part of its collection in their catalog. 

    It is interesting that Lebrun chose to create these three similar pieces. “Terrified Woman With Child” and “Running Figure” were both bought by their respective museums very shortly after they were initially created, with “Terrified Woman With Child” being purchased in 1949 and “Running Figure” being bought in 1948. These pieces being purchased so briefly after their initial creation indicates the popularity of Lebrun during this time. All pieces appear to have been purchased while Lebrun was still alive which does support the idea that he named these pieces. Based on this series and other sets, such as Rico Lebrun’s later series “Dante's Inferno,” it appears that Lebrun worked with a type of repetition of figures in which past drawings would inform the creation and composition of future works.