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Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman reveals the artist’s thoughts on portraiture and his artistic process, more generally. The first section of the writing speaks to Neiman’s method of assessing a subject. (e.g. He writes, “I penetrate in in the subject…
Tags: Art, Art Process, Document, Notes, Style
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief survey of the artist’s professional ventures. Although the writing fails to provide many specifics, it does give a general sense of the bureaucratic texture of the artist’s professional developments. The…
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Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman gives a kind of narrative account of baccarat. Neiman made a series of works—including Desert Inn Baccarat and Baccarat, paintings both made in the early 1990s and widely distributed as posters and prints—depicting the…
Notes on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman gives an overview of Central Park, in particular Bethesda Terrace. Neiman made multiple works depicting the location, including a print and poster which was widely distributed. The note is one of a series the artist wrote…
Tags: Art References, Document, New York, Notes, Parks
Letter from Lydia Hoelscher to LeRoy Neiman
A letter to LeRoy Neiman from his mother, Lydia Hoelscher, at Great Gorge.
Tags: Correspondence, Document, Family, Lydia Hoelscher
Letter
A note from LeRoy Neiman to his parents, Lydia and Earl Hoelscher; the letter was written on a promotional card for Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois.
Tags: Chicago, Correspondence, Document, Earl Hoelscher, Family, Letter, Lydia Hoelscher
Note on Art
This note, with its poetic verse and range of refererences detailing LeRoy Neiman's interest in sports art, audience, and variable brushstrokes, is most likely an intital draft of the artist's catalogue essay for his monograph Winners: My Thrity…
Tags: Art, Being a Sports Artist, Document, Japan, Landscapes, Notes, Sketching, Sports
Note on Art
This personal note from LeRoy Neiman lists a range of the artist's references, including Armenian artist Jennie Augusta Brownscombe's Thanksgiving at Plymouth (1925). That said, it is unclear what Neiman is pointing to with the phrase, "Painting…
Tags: Art, Art Reference, Document, Notes