Browse Items (47 total)
Sort by:
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a list of hallmarks of the artist’s time at SAIC. The register includes everything from a mention of Katherine Kuh to a Jules Breton painting making its first appearance in America. The nature of the note is…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an exhaustive account of artistic influences—covering everything from “Chicago sociologists” to Tilman Riemenschneider's Head of Christ— garnered at the artist’s time at SAIC. The note is roughly divided into five…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdotal account of influences rooted the artist’s time at SAIC. Generally, the references catalogued are from a selection of French artistic movements and schools. In addition, Neiman supplies a discussion of…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a list of artworks, ranging from French post-Impressionism to Italian Rococo. The majority of references stem from works seen while the artist saw in Chicago in addition total couple encountered at the Met Museum,…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a fragmented account of the artist’s relationship with chess and card games, specifically bridge. Listing everything from Garrison Keillor’s hobbiest interest in “chess, pool, [and] poker” to the famed American…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a self-conscious, retrospective reflection on artistic influence. Within the writing, the artist characterizes his influences as “contemporary” and “how things look today”. As abstract as this description might…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the role of spectatorship in the artist’s creative process. Both comparing the making of his work to activities (e.g. “physical play” or “taking part in the competition”) as well as immersing himself in the hustle…
Note on Art
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…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman is one of many touching on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Neiman opens the writing with a remark repeated elsewhere in the collection, concerning his discovery of the artist—that is, meandering through the book department of…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an extensive but in no way complete list of artistic references for the artist. Although the document lacks consistency, there is a general, overarching logic to the catalogue. The list is roughly divided into…