Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on artistic reference, specifically sports.

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 gives some insight into the events Neiman recorded via sketch and painting. The record itself in an excerpt from a larger piece on artistic reference.

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Notes, LN_Notes_1780_01, LN_Notes_1780_02, LN_Notes_1776_01, LN_Notes_1776_02, LN_Notes_1776_03, LN_Notes_1776_04, LN_Notes_1776_05, LN_Notes_1775_01, LN_Notes_1774_01, LN_Notes_1772_01, LN_Notes_1772_02

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New York (N.Y.) New York

[III. VARIOU SUBJECT MATTERS / 1. SPORTS / The work consists in evocations of athletes (See II4. NEIMAN ABOUT HIS WORK). / 1A. SAILING/SWIMMING / Sailing: Dubrovnik, San Francisco / Saint Paul Yacht Club. / Belmont Harbor Chicago / Newport - Am. Cup. chart / San Diego - Perch chart / Monte Carlo Harbor - San Remo / Hawai / Various sailing scenes. /] NEW YORK HARBOR WITH DENNIS AND SAN DIEGO / MONTE CARLO - ST. TROPEZ [/ Idle Boats Prize Winners / Men, Boats and the Sea in St. Paul] MPLS ART INSTITUTE MINNESOTA STATE SHOW [U.S. Lines Ocean Liner departures from N.Y. Tales of voyages with Janet.] - DRAWING CONTEXT [Paints yacht in San Remo with bulging sails] flapping [tossing on the green water jockeying / Greg LOUGANIS was a perfect form, diving. Bought one of Neiman's bronze sculpture (a leopard).] The picture DIVER / SPITZ the picture swim [/ 1B. LONG DISTANCE RUNNING / Idioms: besiege - fix your wagon, clean your clock. / "I'm gonna clean yo' clock as I run against the clock". / Painted the "Marathon" of New York on several occasions. /] POSTERS MAYORS VIEWING STAND [/ The tale that became the basis for the modern Marathon race: Marathon, long-distance foot race first held at the revival of the Olympic Games at Athens in 1896. It commemorates the legendary feat of Greek solider who, in 490 B.C. is supposed to have run Marathon to Athens, a distance of about 40 Km. (25 miles) to bring news of the Athenian victory over the Persians before dying of exhaustion / A current example of this legend is a statement made to me by the Great Irish miler Eamon Couglin in talking about a particular race he competed in: "He was leading for 2 1/2 miles on the last lap he died". / Great WAITZ - Fred - LEBOW running over to see poster. / Beauty of speed - Today's Fast Girls. / Mary DECKER & Evelyn ASHFORD, the class of the fast and the swift.]
Black beauties

Typewritten with pencil on paper.