This note from LeRoy Neiman is divided into two sections: first, a commentary on the artist’s style, and second, an anecdotal account of the artists’s public reception and popularity. With regards to the former, the document touches on everything…
This note from LeRoy Neiman reveals the artist’s thoughts on portraiture and his artistic process, more generally. The first section of the writing speaks to Neiman’s method of assessing a subject. (e.g. He writes, “I penetrate in in the subject…