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A letter to LeRoy Neiman from his mother, Lydia Hoelscher in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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.

A letter to LeRoy Neiman from his mother, Lydia Hoelscher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Additional notes added by Neiman.

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

This membership card for MGM Grand Air, a VIP charter airline focused on small luxury flights, attests to LeRoy Neiman's interest in travel and the leisure class. The airline, founded in 1987, had a short run; with an increase of cheaper private…

This membership card for MGM Grand Air, a VIP charter airline focused on small luxury flights, attests to LeRoy Neiman's interest in travel and the leisure class. The airline, founded in 1987, had a short run; with an increase of cheaper private…

This brief note from LeRoy Neiman theorizes artistic process. He writes, “To (process) painting is to confirm / It’s not the destination / It’s the journey.” The remark then insinuates to find both painting and process, one must paradoxically…

A personal note from LeRoy Neiman on the connection between art and play.

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…

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…