Neiman Leroy
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Prints
Lithograph, Paper
Vintage 1960s American Prints
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Screen
Early 2000s American Modern Portrait Prints
Screen
1970s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Lithograph
1990s American Prints
Wood, Paper
1970s Prints and Multiples
Offset
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
20th Century Landscape Prints
Lithograph
1970s American Modern Animal Prints
Screen
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Tapestries
Silk
1970s Prints and Multiples
Offset
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Metal
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Prints
Screen
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Late 20th Century Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Screen
1970s Contemporary Animal Prints
Screen
1970s Prints and Multiples
Offset
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Screen
1990s American Modern Landscape Prints
Screen
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Screen
1970s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Etching
Mid-20th Century American Drawings
Paper
1980s Prints and Multiples
Offset
Vintage 1980s American Prints
Metal
20th Century American Prints
Paper
1960s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1990s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1970s Impressionist More Prints
Screen
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Prints
Screen
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
Paper
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Archival Pigment
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Wall-mounted Sculptures
Metal
Vintage 1970s Expressionist Prints
Paper
1980s Prints and Multiples
Offset
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Vintage 1970s Expressionist Books
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Modern Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
1980s Prints and Multiples
Offset
1970s Prints and Multiples
Offset
1980s Prints and Multiples
Offset
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Prints
20th Century Prints and Multiples
Offset
Early 2000s Prints
Vintage 1980s American Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
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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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