1. LeRoy Neiman's father deserted his family, and when his mother married his stepfather, John L Niman in 1926, LeRoy changed to the new surname as well.
24 Facts About LeRoy Neiman
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LeRoy Neiman's mother divorced Neiman about 1935, and married for the third time in about 1940, to Ernst G Hoelscher, of St Paul.
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LeRoy Neiman died in St Paul on November 14,1985, aged 87.
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LeRoy Neiman was raised in the Macalester-Groveland and Frogtown neighborhoods of St Paul.
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LeRoy Neiman worked as a cook until the end of the war, when his art skills were recognized and put to use painting sets for Red Cross shows.
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LeRoy Neiman met Hugh Hefner while doing freelance fashion illustration for the Carson Pirie Scott department store chain, where Hefner was a writer.
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In 1970, LeRoy Neiman did the illustration for the 5th Dimension's album Portrait.
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In 1994, LeRoy Neiman was commissioned to create the illustrated logo for the Sherman Brothers musical Busker Alley.
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LeRoy Neiman donated $5 million to the School of the Art Institute, which funded the construction of the LeRoy Neiman Center at the School.
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LeRoy Neiman received five honorary doctorates and numerous awards, a lifetime achievement award from the University of Southern California, an induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame, and proclamations and citations.
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LeRoy Neiman received The Order of Lincoln award on the 200th birthday celebration of Abraham Lincoln given by the Governor of Illinois in 2009.
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LeRoy Neiman produced about six different serigraph subjects a year, generally priced from $3,000 to $6,000 each.
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LeRoy Neiman worked in oil, enamel, watercolor, pencil drawings, pastels, serigraphy and some lithographs and etching.
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LeRoy Neiman was listed in Art Collector's Almanac, Who's Who in the East, Who's Who in American Art, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.
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LeRoy Neiman was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists.
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LeRoy Neiman's works have been displayed in museums, sold at auctions, and displayed in galleries and online distributors.
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LeRoy Neiman is considered by many to be the first major sports artist in the world, challenged only in his later years by a new generation of artists like Stephen Holland and Richard T Slone.
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LeRoy Neiman's work is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, Wadham College at Oxford, and in museums and art galleries the world over, as well as in private and corporate collections.
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LeRoy Neiman's painting studio, offices, and home are on one floor, his archives on another, and his penthouse at the top.
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LeRoy Neiman continued to paint after having his right leg amputated, the result of arterial insufficiency, at a New York hospital in April 2010.
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LeRoy Neiman's autobiography, titled All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs was published on June 5,2012.
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Leroy Neiman was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Governor of Illinois in 2009 as a Bicentennial Laureate.
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LeRoy Neiman died on June 20,2012, twelve days after his 91st birthday, in New York City.
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LeRoy Neiman is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City.