Club Card, Beverly Hills Hotel

Club Card, Beverly Hills Hotel

LeRoy Neiman's club card for The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows in Beverly Hills, California.

This club card for The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalow in Beverly Hills, California proves indicative of not only LeRoy Neiman's intimacy with the establilshment but also his interest in leisure culture and travel; this interest was first stoked by the artist's 1960s European tour, "Man at His Leisure" (MAHL), sponsored by Playboy. As indicated by the courtesy card, the artist was a frequent guest at Beverly Hills Hotel, the local being the reference for his iconic Polo Louge, a work featuring at range of celebrities and reproduced in the 1988 December issue of Playboy. His visits to the hotel began in the early 1970s, following his many trips to Lost Angeles in the early 1970s and joint exhibiton with Henry Fonda at Upstairs Gallery, a gallery based in Beverly Hills proper, in 1977.

LeRoy Neiman

LeRoy Neiman Foundation

LeRoy Neiman Foundation

c. 1970-90

The Beverly Hills Hotel

Property of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation; please consult the organization's archivist for further details.

Travel, Marginalia

Image/jpeg

English

Document

LN_Notes_248_01_01; LN_Notes_248_01_02

New York (N.Y.) New York

Card

approx. 2 x 1 inches