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Notes on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a selection of critical events and persons from the mid-1960s through early 1970s. In addition to this list, the artist has provided a personal commentary, communicating his distance to these very topics. Neiman…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief list of sports which interested the artist, including horse racing, gymnastics, and bullfighting. Although the record is abridged both with regards to subject matter as well as description of said…
Note on Art
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…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief list of sports which interested the artist, including sailing and long distance running. Although the record is abridged both with regards to subject matter as well as description of these subjects, it…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman gives a brief description of the cultural fabric of his Midwestern childhood. The record touches on baked-goods, dress for Depression Era unemployment, and boxing. The document was made in preparation for the artist’s…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman links a drawing of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (not to be confused with Domenico Tiepolo, Giovanni’s father) and Neiman’s childhood. The drawing, Punchinellos Outside a Circus, depicts a cluster of bowed punchinellos outside…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides an anecdotal account of his lack of athleticism as a child, with the exception of wrestling for Washington High School, a disposition which he in the document attributes to a degree of social misgiving.
Note on Art
This diffuse note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the cultural linkages between art and sports. Specifically, the writing touches on the kind of so-called transcendental dimension of spectacle that unites the two activities. For example, in the note the…
Note on Art
This note from LeRoy Neiman provides two humorous accounts. The first involves Neiman meeting his likeness—Salvador Dali—at a Hammer Galleries reception. The second exists as a punny story about painting a deceased football player. Both scenarios…
Note on Art
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…