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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a personal account of the artist’s commission at the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Overall, the writing knits personal anecdote into what might be considered more general aesthetic theory. Neiman opens the…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s incursions into the American West, specifically Las Vegas, Nevada. Although constituting more of a skeletal list of commissions than fleshed out discussion, the document gives a cursory portrait of…

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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…

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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…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman gives two anecdotal accounts of his works public reception. The first concerns postcard the artist gifted to a waitress in Las Vegas. The second is about a three man congratulating him via drive-by, while the artist was…

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This brief note from LeRoy Neiman points to art deco references in Las Vegas architecture.

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a list of entertainer portraits the artist made, featuring the likes of Mae West (“Diamond Lil”), Marlene Dietrich (whom Neiman met while stationed in Aachen, Germany), mother Judy Garland and daughter Liza…
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