Lucien Biva  Lucien Felix Biva (13 August 1878 – October 1965) was a French–American artist. He studied painting early on with his father, the Naturalist painter Henri Biva. He was also the nephew of the painter . Between 1921 and 1949 he was an ornamental designer for textile fabrics and similar articles of manufacture having surface ornamentation, patenting over eighty designs with the United States Patent Office. He was a member of the Society of French Artists and the Society of Independent Artists. Biva was born in Paris, where his family lived in Montmartre, 18 rue du Vieux Chemin de Paris (named rue Ravignan after 1867), and it is from designer Charles Biva (1821–1884), father of Henri Biva and Paul Biva that the family developed its artistic talents. In 1845, motivated by the fashion of the time for bourgeois interior ornamentation, Charles Biva opened a wallpaper factory in a northern suburb of Paris where his sons Henri and Paul began their apprenticeship as designers and colorists. Lucien Biva benefited from the creativity inherent in his family, as well as from the proliferation of artistic environment of Montmartre at the end of 19th century and early 20th century, the so–called the Belle Époque. Lucien Biva first studied under his father, then enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts of Paris. At this time his professors included the poster designer Eugène Grasset (1845–1917). His education formed him as a painter but also as an interior designer and decorator. He exhibited for the first time at the Salon des artistes français in 1902, with an entry titled "Derniers rayons à Villeneuve-l’Étang", and exhibited there regularly until 1914. Other exhibition venues that saw his participation during this period included Salon des Indépendants in 1909. During the month of August 1919, Lucien Biva left Le Havre aboard the transatlantic ocean liner "". On the first of September he debarked in New York City where he would reside throughout the rest of his career. Various reasons impelled Lucien Biva to emigrate to the United States. His father was a well-known painter, and it may have been difficult for Lucien Biva to make a name for himself without being linked to the work of his father.