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This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s artistic process. Knitting together his work for Playboy, likeness for travel and leisure culture, as well as the causal compulsiveness with which he makes his work, Neiman provides a generalizing…

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…

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s process. In fact, the writing serves to work against the conception the artist has a “process”. Neiman states, “Art Process / OK? / BUT!”. He then continues on to describe the dynamic role colors…

This winding note from LeRoy Neiman provides a kind of off-the-cuff mediation on what it means to be an artist. The note touches on everything from personal anecdote (e.g. a design instructor at SAIC telling a student, “Sweetie, your problem is you…

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s artistic process. The fragmented commentary opens with a remark touching on the artist’s personal psychic connection to art-making. Following this comment, Neiman delves in to a brief discussion of…

This note from LeRoy Neiman discusses his artistic process. Mixing the language of a kind of biological determinism (e.g. “stimulus conditions and responses” or “external stimulus stimuli”) with a discussion of the less tangible, wandering mechanics…

This writing from LeRoy Neiman provides a winding tribute to Casey Stengel. Neiman had must admiration for the baseball player sketching him live on multiple occasion, issuing a poster of him, and eventually publishing a monograph dedicated to…

This abbreviated note from LeRoy Neiman speaks to the artist’s relationship with drawing. Within the document, Neiman touches on his kind of obsession with the act and indiscriminate eye, with regards to subject matter. The writing is one of many…

This brief note from LeRoy Neiman probes the notion of epiphany. At the bottom of the writing, Neiman lists two jazz establishments (i.e. Club Golden Gate and Birdland) of which he took reference. The nature of the document is unknown.

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…