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This note, with its poetic verse and range of refererences detailing LeRoy Neiman's interest in sports art, audience, and variable brushstrokes, is most likely an intital draft of the artist's catalogue essay for his monograph Winners: My Thrity…

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This personal note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdotal account of the artist's trip from Palm Springs to Oklahoma City via private jet with comedian Red Skeleton, during which the artist completed a series of drawings featuring the entertainer.…

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LeRoy Neiman's commentary on sketching choreographer Rudolph Nureyev at the New York restaurant, Elaine's.

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This abbreviated note from LeRoy Neiman speaks to the artist’s relationship with drawing. Within the document, Neiman touches on his kind of obsession with the act and indiscriminate eye, with regards to subject matter. The writing is one of many…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman is one of many touching on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Neiman opens the writing with a remark repeated elsewhere in the collection, concerning his discovery of the artist—that is, meandering through the book department of…

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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…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman was mostly likely an informal sketch or study for a later work. Despite the ambiguous function, the drawing (and paired text) illustrate the artist’s interest in physicality and the shifting forms of the human body.

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This note from LeRoy Neiman gives a brief assessment of his artistic development, linking his involvement in art to an early childhood interest. The chronology provided is divided into four sections: childhood, being a student, a professional artist,…

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This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief list of sports which interested the artist, including boxing, football, baseball, and golf. Although the record is abridged both with regards to subject matter as well as description of said subjects, it…

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This press pass for the NY Mets Baseball Club was issued to LeRoy Neiman, representing The National Enquirer; the card granted the artist access to Shea Stadium's field and dugout. Beyond these practicalities, the permit features a signature from the…
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