Note on Art

Note on Art

A personal note from LeRoy Neiman on his final portrait of his mother, Lydia Hoelscher

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides a brief history of the artist’s final portrait of his mother, Lydia Hoelscher. The work was a sketch, dated 1980. Although the record is a singular account, it exhibits rhetorical overlap with other notes the artist made about rendering his mother. These overlaps include references to painters, Bellows, Rembrandt, and Freud, as well as quoted quips from Hoelscher.

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Notes

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New York (N.Y.) New York

Monticelli, Rembrandt – Bellows Lucien Freud
The last time I sketched my Mother March 1980 at 82
She mused “ My dancing days are over” My mother would have liked that”
Her mother considered dancing evil
The last time I saw my mother

Pencil on paper.