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This note, expanding on LeRoy Neiman's impression of spectatorship, sports art, and artistic process, is most likely a draft of the artist's catalogue essay for his monograph Winners: My Thrity Years in Sports published in 1983. The text seems ot…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at his critical reception. The writing is one of many touching on this topic. That said, within this particular document, Neiman points to maybe an alternative perspective gained with age. This document also, unlike…

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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…

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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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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…

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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…

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A letter to LeRoy Neiman from his mother, Lydia Hoelscher, at Great Gorge.

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A note from LeRoy Neiman to his mother, Lydia Hoelscher; Neiman sent the postcard from Paris.

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A note from LeRoy Neiman to his mother, Lydia Hoelscher; the letter was written on a promotional flier for the artist's exhibition at Galerie Renée & Victor and mailed from Stockholm, Sweden, where the gallery was located.

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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.
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