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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LeRoy Neiman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Regarding provenance, the documents originate from Neiman's personal estate, largely found in Neiman's in-home office at Hotel Des Artist on the Upper West Side in New York, New York; Neiman amassed the bulk of materials late career. For further information on source, please contact the archivist at the LeRoy Neiman Foundation. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available LeRoy Neiman Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1980-2011 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource LeRoy Neiman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details. Relation A related resource LeRoy Neiman's personal notes Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Documents Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Identifiers found at item level. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York (N.Y.) New York Description An account of the resource LeRoy Neiman’s notes on art encompasses the artist’s comments on art generally as well as his personal process, career and critical reception, style, and artistic reference. Although this collection provides insights into Neiman’s perception of art’s role in life and work, its extent is not final. The artist’s musings on the subject spill over to other records, such as his thoughts on childhood, travel, sports, food culture, and class politics. <br /><br />The majority of these documents were made in preparation for the artist’s memoir, <em>All Told</em>. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [- Pierre Bonnard, French 1867-1947: "Preparation for Lunch" (gouache) Folding napkins, settling table, still life, table cloth. / - Chardin, French 1699-1779: "The White Tablecloth" . Bread, wine, knife / - Daumier Honore, French caricaturist. He probed human feelings and broadly transcribed contemporary life. His period treated him unkindly; he is now belauded. This perversion of a talent justly celebrated for work of another kind has found much favor. / - Hendrik Gollzives, Dutch 1558-1619: "Hercules" (engraving), rendering from back. Great technique and anatomy (Met. Mus., Rembrandt Collection) / - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian 1696-1770: "Rinaldo and Armida in the Garden" Prominent with companion piece at top of stairs, later other prominent pieces at the Met. Soft colors, space / / The Italians - Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo - hit me hard and stayed with me, although they were not strongly represented in the Chicago Art Institute collections. It looked at the Fragonard and Tiepolo in Ryerson Library // An Aside / During this plunge into the underworld, this binge of high paying patronage, I did not neglect my own painting / But the ref of the art game benched me for being a bad boy / Contender in the art game / I was all over the art scene - teaching, illustrating, gaining patronage. But I wanted recognition in the official art world too - the world of exhibitions, juried competitions, shows in galleries and museums. The big league art world starts with the local scene and expands to bigger and bigger audiences on the international circuit. I was working my way through the field, course, track?? Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Word processed document on paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Note on Art Subject The topic of the resource A note from LeRoy Neiman on artistic references from the artist's time in Chicago. Description An account of the resource 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, after moving to New York in 1962. In addition to this registry, Neiman catalogues a range of professional ventures (teaching, juried competitions, and illustration) undertaken while living in Chicago. This latter section proves anecdotal in style. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LeRoy Neiman, Notes on Art Subject The topic of the resource This collection features LeRoy Neiman’s notes on art. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LeRoy Neiman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Regarding provenance, the documents originate from Neiman's personal estate, largely found in Neiman's in-home office at Hotel Des Artist on the Upper West Side in New York, New York; Neiman amassed the bulk of materials late career. For further information on source, please contact the archivist at the LeRoy Neiman Foundation. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available LeRoy Neiman Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1980-2011 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource LeRoy Neiman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details. Relation A related resource LeRoy Neiman's personal notes Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Documents Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Identifiers found at item level. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York (N.Y.) New York Description An account of the resource LeRoy Neiman’s notes on art encompasses the artist’s comments on art generally as well as his personal process, career and critical reception, style, and artistic reference. Although this collection provides insights into Neiman’s perception of art’s role in life and work, its extent is not final. The artist’s musings on the subject spill over to other records, such as his thoughts on childhood, travel, sports, food culture, and class politics. <br /><br />The majority of these documents were made in preparation for the artist’s memoir, <em>All Told</em>. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document ["Without intent I draw from the outside world the semblance of things, but in this way, I, myself become part of the world's imaginings. Thus in everything imagination is simply that which is natural. It is natural vision, life..." / H. INFLUENCES & IMITATIONS / When I got out of the army in St. Paul, I did a quick oil on a cotton canvas fragment of a Tilman Riemenschneider's head of Christ from a pamphlet on his work I bought in Wurzburg in 1945 in army occupation. / During the 50's and 60's ] some of [my favoriet artworks were Toulouse Lautrec's lithos, Gustave Courbet's (1819-1877) "L'Apres-Diner a Oran" (1949), Paul Cezanne's "Card Players" (1892), Daumier's "At the Cafe" / Lautrec and Dufy were my favorites as well, together with Kees van Dongen, a then hard to find in Chicago, sort of "out of favor" artist. / I became very attached to certain paintings in the Chester Dale collection / - Henri-Marie-Raymond, Vicomte de Toulouse Lautrect Monfa, French 1892. "At the Moulin Rouge" (47 1/2 X 55 1/4), "At the Moulin de la Galette" the SAIC owned half a dozen of his paintings, a sketchbook and hundreds of prints. A Lautrec exhibition was held in 1949. He put himself in the painting. He drew great head shapes, women's hairdo, men's hat indoors, young adolescent girls. Right foreground chlorotic, pale yellow, green color Design dark shape groups] / [- Raoul Dufy, French 1877-1953: "Nude Reclining", an exotic painting with color combinations and violets and a mountain landscape "Saint Janet" / Also "Mindful of Hindu Girl" (1928) / - Henri Matisse, French 1869-1954: "Woman Before An Aquarium" The gaze of a woman stopping at fish. I always have felt Matisse arrived at what he wanted with]out [having to change the things very much. His intelligence guided him, and what he put down was what he intended] very positive. When he made a change he left evidence / [- Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881-1973: "Family of Saltimbanques" (7 X 7 1/2), "Lovers" and from his "blue period", little girl etching a bowl while standing at a table (1901) / - John Singer Sargent, American 1856-1925: "Nude Study of an Egyptian Girl" / - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian 1888-19: "Conversation Among the Ruins" (loan) / - Francois Boucher, French: "Nude" / - Georges Rouault, French 1871-19 "Jesus Always Scourged" (1922) (Also "Christ's Head", in Paris) / - A half dozen Braques' and Innis / - The women paintings of Modigliani / - Edgar Degas, French 1834-1917 Pastels, namely "Dancers in the Wings" / At SAIC all students experienced, first hand, the many benefits of the Museum, of the Ryerson Library Print Collection as well as the Goodman Theater of Drama - which was associated with the school. / My art teachers at SAIC were Boris Anisfeld (painting),] Document [Briggs Dyer (drawing and painting), Alan Philbrick (pen and ink), John Rogers Cox (scratch board rendering), Ed Ruppercht (subject matter, general drawing), Paul Wieghart (painting),] 6 [Members of SAIC's staff were Carl O. Schniewind (curator of prints and drawings) who loved French prints, Hugh Edwards (assistant] Harold Yoachim? / [curator of prints and drawings), Ethelred Abbot (librarian), Ryerson and Burnheim. Katherine Kuh (curator of modern painting and sculpture) became an editor and liked my work. Daniel Catton Rich (director of Art Institute from 1938 to 1958) loved Magnasco (4) Fredrick A. Sweet (curator of American paintings) when he selected a painting from two he was considering to hang in the American exhibition of the Art Institute, said after studying the two paintings "you're on the right track, but your paintings need be a bit more cursory". This was meaningful comment and I've tried, but still show more than I should. / Art school students were John Bajerus, Bob and Herb Katzman, Franz Schultz, Seymour Rosephsky, Irv Petlin, Bob Natkin (with whom I am still in contact), Nathan Goldstein,] very promising sculptor [Claus Oldenburg, Leon Golub, Estes (who started the hyperreaslist school) Jordan Krimstein, John Jurgens] had something surrealistically special [and Charles Usher] a talent who I felt needed to be watched [a black student (5), were very talented. There are no big names today because of other objectives Robert Natkin was a kid out of high school in our class that comprised 75 to 85 war veterans - even WACS Student Whitney Halstead was an assistant to Kathleen Blackshear, the History of Art instructor and lecturer I once seriously kicked him in the ass when he snippely scolded me about my paper being turned in late. / The art Institute major shows were with De Kooning and Pollock (abstract expressionism), Enamul, Baziotes, Marco Relli, Van Gogh, and a tapestry show] Kline Guston / Katherine Kuh said when sitting with a group of students "Picasso if he were born and living the U.S. would do any kind of art he pleased to experience himself. In Europe he had to be just a painter and a sculptor. / Between 1947 and 1959, when at SAIC, I became especially interested in [...] / - Jean-Francois Millet, French 1814-1875 "Bringing Home The New-Born Calf" (oil) Peasant scene of a mother following calf bearers / - Jules Breton, French 1812-1875 "The Song of the Lark" Female dignity. / - El Greco 1541-1614: "Assumption of the Virgin" The rolled back upward wet eyes! / - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian 1691-1765: "Festival of Piazza Navonna" I later (in 1991) worked in Piazza Navonna. / - Nicolaus Poussin, French 1594-1665 "Saint John on Palmas" Landscape. / - Paul Cezanne, French 1839-1906 "Mountain being Mont Sainte-Victore" (1887 London) Great landscape paintings in Le Louvre Anvers: Cubistic Village Panorama (oil). Shanting roof tops and flat sides of buildings. Study Lorain "Cezanne's compositions" / - Kees Van Dongen, Dutch 1877-1919 "Rue de la Paix". Elegant womens and dogs, style. / - Willaims Glackens, Americans 1870-1938: "Chez Mougin" Restaurant, cafe scene with a couple, a coat over a chair, still life of glassware on table. Ash can. / - John Sloan, American 1871-1951: "Mc Sorley's Bar" "Renganeschi's Saturday Night" Restaurant. On the left side, a couple is busy attacking plates, a man is eating soup; waiter, etc. [...] / - John Marin, American. "Fifth Avenue", watercolor wizard, turbulence, clock 11 A.M. / - Edouard Manet, French 1832-1883: "Le Journal Illustre" Woman reading newspaper on baton in public attire. Brushwork, ala prima, fluid paint.] / [- Pierre Bonnard, French 1867-1947 "Preparation for Lunch" (gouache). Folding napkins, setting table, still life, table cloth. / - Chardin, French 1699-1779: "The White Tablecloth". Bread, wine, knife. / - Daumier Honore, French caricaturist. He probed human feeling and broadly transcribed contemporary life. His period treated him unkindly; he is now belauded. This perversion of a talent justly celebrated for work of another kind has found much favor / - Hendrik Gollzives, Dutch 1558-1619: "Hercules" (engraving), rendering from back. Great technique and anatomy (Met. Mus., Rembrandt Colelction) / - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian 1696-1770: "Rinaldo and Armida in the Garden". Prominent with companion piece at top of stairs; later other prominent pieces at the Met. Soft colors, space. / The Italians - Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo - hit me hard and stayed with me, although they were not strongly represented in the Chicago Art Institute collections. I looked at Fragonard and Tiepolo in Ryerson Library. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Word processed document with pencil on paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Note on Art Subject The topic of the resource A note from LeRoy Neiman on art references garnered during his time at SAIC. Description An account of the resource 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 SAIC faculty who expressed interest in his work. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LeRoy Neiman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LeRoy Neiman Foundation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available LeRoy Neiman Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1990-2011 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource LeRoy Neiman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource LeRoy Neiman, Notes on Art Subject The topic of the resource This collection features LeRoy Neiman’s notes on art. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LeRoy Neiman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Regarding provenance, the documents originate from Neiman's personal estate, largely found in Neiman's in-home office at Hotel Des Artist on the Upper West Side in New York, New York; Neiman amassed the bulk of materials late career. For further information on source, please contact the archivist at the LeRoy Neiman Foundation. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available LeRoy Neiman Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1980-2011 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource LeRoy Neiman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details. Relation A related resource LeRoy Neiman's personal notes Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Documents Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Identifiers found at item level. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York (N.Y.) New York Description An account of the resource LeRoy Neiman’s notes on art encompasses the artist’s comments on art generally as well as his personal process, career and critical reception, style, and artistic reference. Although this collection provides insights into Neiman’s perception of art’s role in life and work, its extent is not final. The artist’s musings on the subject spill over to other records, such as his thoughts on childhood, travel, sports, food culture, and class politics. <br /><br />The majority of these documents were made in preparation for the artist’s memoir, <em>All Told</em>. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document [ H. INFLUENCES & IMITATIONS] Army [When I just got out of the army in St. Paul, I did a quick oil on a cotton canvas fragment of a Tilman Riemenschneider's head of Christ from a pamphlet on his work I bought in Wurzburg in 1945 in an army occupation] Chicago - New York [Carl Milles' Triton fountain at C.A.I and piece in stall at the Met Restaurant were touchstones to onyx Indian in St. Paul's post office] The two Minnesota pieces are no longer there Student [As a student, because of Swedish blood, I read the writings of Swedenborg (6) and the plays of Stringburg. I also read Sartre, Paul Klee, Santayana, Freud, Kafka, the Russians, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Henri James (7), T.S. Eliot and discovered Beckett. I took Swedenborg] Books [from the library] / [The Chicago sociologist started to make their imprint] impact [on me as well as poets Paul Carrol,] and [Raoul Denny, John Piper adn big MAN David Riesman - author of "The Lonely Crowd" (1950). I also erad Huizinga's "Homo Ludens" (1950), a study of play elements in culture, Reuel Denny, "The Astonished Muse", Jeremy Bentham, "The Pleasure Principle (Notes on Hedonism)" and Rudloph Arnheim, "Psychology and Perception" / I never really enjoyed History of Art projects but realized their value years later to this day and believe it to be the most important class along with figure drawing and painting in all art training. You must have knowledge of your predecessors and respect for them as you hope generations hence will have work for you / ---- / During the 50's and 60's, my favorite artworks were Toulouse Lautrec's lithos, Gustav Gourbet's (1819-1877) "L'Apres-Diner a Oran" (1949), Paul Cezanne's "Card Players" (1892), Daumier's "At the Cafe" Lautrec and Dufy were my favorites as well, together with Kees van Dongen, a then hard to find in Chicago, an "out of favor artist"] Will select from later [I became very attached to certain paintings in the Chester Dale collection - Henri-Marie-Rayond, Vicomte de Toulouse Lautrec Monfa, French 1892 "At the Moulin Rouge" (47 1/2 X 55 1/4), "At the Moulin de la Gallete". The SAIC owned half] / [a dozen of paintings, a sketchbook and hundreds of prints. A Lautrec exhibitions was held in 1949. He put himself in painting. He drew great head shapes, women's hairdo, men's hat indoors, young adolescent girls. Right foreground: chlorotic, pale yellow, green color. Design. dark shape groups. / - Raoul Dufy, French 1877-1953: "Nude Reclining", an exotic painting with color combinations and violets and a mountain landscape "Saint Janet" / Also "Mindful of Hindu Girl" (1928) / - Henri Matisse, French 1869-1954: "Woman Before An Aquarium" The gaze of a woman stopping at fish. I always have felt Matisse arrived at what he wanted with having to change the things very much. His intelligence guided him,] he had the ability to [put down what he intended / - Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881-1973: "Family of Saltimbanques" (7 X 7 1/2), "Lovers" / - John Singer Sargent, American 1856-1925: "Nude Study of an Egyptian Girl" / - Giorgio de Chirico, Italian 1888-19: "Conversation Among the Ruins" (loan) / - Francois Boucher, French: "Nude" / - Georges Rouault, French 1871-19 "Jesus Always Scourged" (1922) (Also "Christ's Head", in Paris) / - A half dozen Braques' and Innis / - The women paintings of Modigliani / - Edgar Degas, French 1834-1917 Pastels, namely "Dancers in the Wings"] / [In the Art Institute Museum upstairs, Addison and I would visit the galleries almost everyday.] at noon time [He had his favorites - Rembrandt, Vermeer, etc. I had mine, mostly the French. Two particular paintings that made my mind wanter to the Riviera were Matisse's "Woman Standing at the Window" and Dufy's "Open Window" (Nice, 1928) Similar subjects were depicted a view out from an interior on]to [the Mediterranean. They made me want to be there. Eventually I did] / Check later [Between 1947 and 1959, when at SAIC, I became especially interested in / - John Constabile, British 1776-1837. landscape "Stoke-By-Nayland" (oil). Farming with broccoli trees and cathedral in the distance. / - Jean-Francois Millet, French 1814-1875 "Bringing Home The New-Born Calf" (oil) Peasant scene of a mother following calf bearers / - Jules Breton, French 1812-1875 "The Song of the Lark" Female dignity. / - El Greco 1541-1614: "Assumption of the Virgin" The rolled back upward wet eyes! / - Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Italian 1691-1765] / Hendrick Gollzives Dutch 1558-1619 Hercules [(engraving), rendering from back. Great technique and anatomy (Met. Mus, Rembrandt Collection). / - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian 1696-1770: "Rinaldo and Armida in the Garden". Prominent with companion piece at top of stairs; later other prominent pieces at the Met. Soft colors, space. / The Italians - Tintoretto, Veronese and Tiepolo - hit me hard and stayed with me, although they were not strongly represented in the Chicago Art Institute collections. I looked] up further [Fragonard and Tiepolo in Ryerson Library. / There was no way of not getting knocked out when the American Expressionists came to town in the late 1940s. Pollock, DeKooning, Marco Relli, [Klein] - to sight the ones who made the most powerful impact. Then there was the great masterpieces of French tapestry which I first saw at the Art Institute Show of 1948 and which set off a lifetime of keen interest. I repeatedly visit the tapestries collection at the Met when prowling] museums. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Wordprocessed document with pencil, pen, and marker on paper. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Note on Art Subject The topic of the resource A note from LeRoy Neiman on influences from the artist's time at SAIC. Description An account of the resource This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an exhaustive account of artistic influences—covering everything from “Chicago sociologists” to Tilman Riemenschneider's <em>Head of Christ</em>— garnered at the artist’s time at SAIC. The note is roughly divided into five sections: influential literature read, courses (in both the humanities and studio arts) taken, artworks physical seen, and anecdotes about the Chicago Art Institute. The sections have little relation outside of autobiographical chornology, and the note was most likley taken in preparation for the artist's memior, <em>All Told</em>.  Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource LeRoy Neiman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived LeRoy Neiman Foundation Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available LeRoy Neiman Foundation Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource c. 1990-2011 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource LeRoy Neiman Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details. Relation A related resource Notes Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image/jpeg Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context LN_Notes_1092_01; LN_Notes_1092_02; LN_Notes_1092_03; LN_Notes_1092_04; LN_Notes_1092_05 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant New York (N.Y.) New York Art Art Reference Bonnard Cezanne Chardin Chicago Daumier de Kooning Document New York Notes SAIC Tiepolo Tintoretto Toulouse-Lautrec van Dongen Veronese