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Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an abbreviated list of parks the artist depicted. The record is most likely a document excited from a larger piece, given the numbering.
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman, an excerpt on a longer piece of personal reflections on his work, provides commentary on a selection of paintings. The list includes: New York Press Room Daily News, Facade of the Paris Opera, and Ascent. In addition,…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a fragmented commentary from the artist on his prints (and by extension work with Knoedler Publishing in the 1970s and 1980s), biography, and relationship with St. John's University. Neiman received St. John's…
Note on Art
This brief writing from LeRoy Neiman notes a set of art history lectures the artist attended at the University of Chicago, while he was at SAIC.
Note on Art
This autobiographical note from LeRoy Neiman outlines his move to New York in 1962, from Chicago with a yearlong interlude in Paris. In the writing, the artist remarks on the changing landscape of his new neighborhood, the Upper West Side, with…
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 recounts the opportunities made available to the artist through the GI Bill on both a personal (i.e. attending art school) and more general level (i.e. “gain[ing] a liberal education”). The writing is one of many marking…
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,…