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This note from LeRoy Neiman relays a set of images, experiences, partnerships, and cultural touchstones that proved of interest to the artist. The kind of frenetic associations made in the ad hoc list then in some way parallel Neiman’s own artistic…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdote from the artist’s teaching career. The writing concerns a student at the School of Art Institute in Chicago (SAIC) who was both artist as well as aspiring Playboy model. Although the note does not…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman touches on the artist’s artistic process. Knitting together his work for Playboy, likeness for travel and leisure culture, as well as the causal compulsiveness with which he makes his work, Neiman provides a generalizing…

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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…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief list of jazz musicians and “ill people” featured in the artist’s work, including Billy Holiday, Nat King Cole, and a deceased football coach. Although the record is abridged both with regards to subject…

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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 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…
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