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This note from LeRoy Neiman was made in preparation for his memoir, All Told. Although the document's content ranges from Playboy magazine to Dizzy Gillespie and US presidents, the bullet points are most likely suggestions of book plates for chapters…

The note from LeRoy Neiman contains multiple commentaries, including one on his critical reception and another on Louis Armstrong. The former is one of many illustrating Neiman’s indignation over his exclusion from the “art world". The latter…

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…

This note from LeRoy Neiman is one of the more theoretical in the collection. Looking at the work of artist’s such as jazz musician Coleman Hawkins, artist Henri Matisse, and Hudson River School painter, Thomas Moran, Neiman probes the function of…

This note from LeRoy Neiman reflects on his artistic style and career. Unlike many preceding artists—such as the Abstract Expressionist (who can be seen as the first commercially successful group of American artists)—Neiman insists on his work’s…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at “Moresque Ornamentation,” specifically that of the Alhambra. Overall, the record seems to engage ideas of cultural synchronism, discussions of symbolism, and more concrete notions of color and infrastructure. But…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at commedia dell'arte character, Brighella. Brighella, coming out of Zanni (the stock servant), is a middle class figure marked by preternatural lust, greediness, and a propensity to tell falsehoods; overall, he is…

This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on a range of subjects, including writer Edmund White, Buddhism, French tapestry, and the mythical Queen of Sheba. In addition to the diffuse quality of these references, the predominance of the record is dedicated…

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a list of adjectives and characterizations, including, “topsy-turvy,” “filtration-friendliness,” “fun-loving,” and “day and nite carnival affair”. Given the document’s relation to another record, these attributes…

This note from LeRoy Neiman gives a brief overview of the cultural bearing and ambiance of commedia dell’arte. The document references Francisco Goya’s Los Comicos Ambulantes (The Strolling Players)—a painting displaying jubilant a dell’arte…