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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief overview of the artist’s biography and career. The document divides his life into themes—ranging from receiving the GI Bill to moving to New York—grounded in chronology. Given the stylistic bend and…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides at list of the artist’s paintings featuring bars. The record is not total, nor is the original purpose known.

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This note from LeRoy Neiman on his artistic career poetically links notions of ambition and creation with cultural anecdotes and explicit references to “fire.” The anecdotes concern American tennis player Pete Sampras and Renaissance painter…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides some insight into Neiman’s early career in Chicago. The document, relaying a story about a certain Mrs. Frank McMahon buying two paintings from Neiman to an undisclosed recipient, explains that despite the his…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides the history of the artist's painting of Ricardo's Bar in Chicago, through personal anecdote. The record is not only significant because it elucidates the piece's biography but also because the document provides a…
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