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Note on Art
This abbreviated note from LeRoy Neiman provides a kind of poetic web of the artist’s journeying career. The writing touches on everything from his lack of institutional support (i.e. “no grants, no Fulbrights, ect.”) to a metaphorical look at…
Tags: Art, Art References, Document, Notes
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an abridged chronology of cultural icons, artistic events, and historical milestones, spanning from 1934 through the mid-1960s, that proved influential on the artist’s work. The document is divided into three…
Tags: Art, Art References, Document, Notes
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the beginnings of the artist’s relationship with Hammer Galleries. Providing a brief profiles of the three “Hammer Brothers” (Harry, Victor, and Armand), Neiman sketches a convivial, slapstick contour of the…
Tags: Armand Hammer, Art, Art References, Document, Hammer Galleries, Notes
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a general overview of Italian Mannerist Jacopo da Pontormo’s biography. Neiman begins with an assertion of Pontormo’s “obsession” with Michelangelo. This declaration then bleeds into a discussion of the painter’s…
Tags: Art, Art References, Document, Notes, Pontormo
Note on Art
A note from LeRoy Neiman on various projects, including serving on the New York City Advisory for Cultural Affairs from 1994 to 1997; the document also features an illustration of Henny Youngman's "Coat of Arms."
Tags: Art, Art References, Document, Henny Youngman, Jazz, New York, Notes
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…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides brief histories and descriptions for a variety of standard gambling “table games. Neiman made a collection of works—paintings, drawings, prints, and posters—engaging gambling as well as site specific pieces for a…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdotal account of his lack of athleticism as a child, with the exception of wrestling for Washington High School, a disposition which he in the document attributes to a degree of social misgiving.
Tags: Art, Art References, Childhood, Document, Notes, Saint Paul, Sports
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman, once again, draws a comparison between the narrative content of an older artwork and the artist’s child. This particular record juxtaposes a print by Cornelius Bloemaert (c. late 17th century) acquisitoned by the…
Tags: Art, Art References, Bloemaert, Childhood, Document, New York, Notes, Print, Saint Paul
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman links a drawing of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (not to be confused with Domenico Tiepolo, Giovanni’s father) and Neiman’s childhood. The drawing, Punchinellos Outside a Circus, depicts a cluster of bowed punchinellos outside…
Tags: Art, Art References, Childhood, Commedia dell'arte, Document, Notes, Saint Paul, Sports, Tiepolo