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Simeon Braguin enjoyed a long and successful career as a fashion illustrator and art director. He was also a painter of lyrical abstractions that link him with the New York School, the group of innovative painters who created Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s and 50s. During the early 1950s, he and his second wife, Janet Chatfield Taylor, a fashion editor, were well-known figures on the art circuit. Braguin also befriended and passed on illustration assignments to the young Andy Warhol. Braguin left the bulk of his estate to Yale University to establish the Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund for American Art.