Neiman Leroy
1980s Abstract Abstract Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Photography
Color
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Surrealist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
Surrealist Figurative Paintings
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Board
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Offset
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Portrait Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Interior Prints
Screen
1970s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1960s Impressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
1960s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Ink, Acrylic
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
1990s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
1990s Impressionist Portrait Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen
21st Century and Contemporary Land Figurative Prints
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Early 2000s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Lithograph
1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen, Lithograph
1990s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen, Lithograph
Vintage 1980s American Modern Paintings
Linen, Acrylic, Plexiglass, Paper, Wood
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Prints
Chrome
1990s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Watercolor
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
20th Century Impressionist Animal Prints
Screen
1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Screen
1980s Abstract Expressionist More Art
Tapestry
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Screen
Early 2000s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples
Archival Paper
Vintage 1960s American Prints
Steel
Late 20th Century American Paintings
Vintage 1960s American Prints
Vintage 1970s American Prints
Glass, Screen
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Posters
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Paintings
Vintage 1970s American Prints
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LeRoy Neiman, born LeRoy Runquist, is best known for his vibrantly colored paintings and screen prints, which draw on Impressionism and Pop Art and frequently feature portraits of athletes and musicians as well as depictions of sporting events. He is renowned for creating art during live coverage of the Olympics and other major American and international sports competitions. He once commented, “I use (bold) color to emphasize the scent, the spirit, and the feeling of the thing I’ve experienced.”
Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Neiman showed an early aptitude for drawing. After returning home from WWII, he studied at the Saint Paul School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), where his classmates included Robert Indiana and Leon Golub. Upon graduation in 1950, he began teaching at SAIC.
In 1953, his oil painting Idle Boats won first prize at the Twin City Show, where the Minneapolis Art Institute purchased it. Neiman’s reputation quickly grew, and museums such as the Carnegie Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington purchased his works.
In 1954, Neiman’s famous association with Playboy magazine began to take shape. Hugh Hefner commissioned Neiman to create an illustration for this fledgling magazine, and his piece won the 1954 Chicago Art Directors Award. This led to a relationship with Playboy that lasted five decades and included Neiman writing and illustrating the “Man at His Leisure” section and the creation of the well-known “Femlin” — a female nymph wearing only opera gloves, stockings and high heels — which appeared on the “Party Jokes” page in every issue since 1955.
In 1970, the 5th Dimension commissioned Neiman to create a cover illustration for the pop group’s album Portrait. In 1994, he created the illustration used for the playbill and the immense Broadway mural for the musical Busker Alley. He was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the highest honor of the state of Illinois, the Order of Lincoln, in 2009.
Today, you can find Neiman’s works in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields), among others.
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