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- Rita Asfour (February 9, 1933 – June 29, 2021) was an American modern artist. She was known for her colorful aesthetic paintings of the human figure. Rita projected life and movement by the strength of her compositions. Feminine mystique and sensuality were her trademark. In Egypt, her high school education was in a French school. In 1959, she received a BA from the Italian Art Institute Leonardo Da Vinci. After graduation her first job was in Beirut, Lebanon. She started as an illustrator and ended being the art director of a weekly magazine. After five years, she was in search of a bigger artistic challenge. Rita immigrated to the United States in 1965 and found a job in Los Angeles at Universal Studio Tours, sketching pastel portraits of visiting tourists. Another major event that same year was her marriage to an aerospace engineer, Jeffrey Asfour. California was her home for the next forty-seven years. She was free to paint what she wanted. Free strokes and bold colors appeared in her landscapes. The thirty years she lived in Malibu were her most prolific and creative. In 2012, at the age of seventy-nine, Rita retired in Las Vegas. But went back to painting after seeing a spectacular Las Vegas showgirls review. The University of Nevada exhibited her new paintings in 2016. Public Television in 2017 aired a half-hour documentary about her long artistic career. Rita continued to paint until 2021. She died on June 29, 2021, after an accident that caused a broken leg. (en)
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- Rita Asfour (February 9, 1933 – June 29, 2021) was an American modern artist. She was known for her colorful aesthetic paintings of the human figure. Rita projected life and movement by the strength of her compositions. Feminine mystique and sensuality were her trademark. In Egypt, her high school education was in a French school. In 1959, she received a BA from the Italian Art Institute Leonardo Da Vinci. Rita continued to paint until 2021. She died on June 29, 2021, after an accident that caused a broken leg. (en)
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