Publicist: Artist LeRoy Neiman dies in NY at 91

Associated Press ^ | June 20, 2012 | ULA ILNYTZKY

[stormer]

“FX McRory’s Whiskey Bar - Seattle”. Which makes me a liar because I always thought the painting was of the now gone Jake’s. FX and Jake’s were owned by the same guy and were very similar. Anyway, if you ever get to Seattle you can go to FX, have a cold one, and pretend you’re Leroy Neiman.

[a fool in paradise]

A true artist.

[a fool in paradise]

In the mid 80s, I got to see a number of gambling paintings he did for Playboy (reportedly, they were from the mansion) at a gallery. They were enormous canvases.

[Slings and Arrows]

I was just kidding. Beats Thomas Kincade any day.

[a fool in paradise]

I wonder if he had time to complete the Obamas’ portraits for the White House gallery.

[SatinDoll]

LOL! I know what Leroy looked like; he wasn’t a 5’3” redhead with long legs and and an ample bosom. No one would ever confuse the two of us - world renowned artist and unknown art historian.

He will forever be condemned by the cogniscenti for going commercial. They prefer artists who do not try to appeal to the “masses”, which is a shame.

Mr.Neiman’s style is very distinct and, after all, art is an economic fossil of the time period in which it was created. Whether he sought to benefit on a purely financial basis or to present his works more widely to the general public, I do not know. Either way, he is famous.

[SatinDoll]

Thank you for the name of the bar. I live in Washington State, and may be up in Seattle later this year.

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LeRoy Neiman, the painter and sketch artist best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91.

Best known for his trademark mustache, I'd say.

Seems like he came out of the magazine illustration tradition of the 1950s and 1960s. The tradition died out and left him as a survivor, but he managed to take it into the art galleries and find a home there.

[stormer]

Then you may be interested in this: http://www.fxmcrorys.com/whiskeybar.php

I happen to know the owner, Mick McHugh, and a nicer man you will never meet.

[SatinDoll]

Thanks for the info.

The bar photo is interesting. It looks surprisingly like Paddy’s Bar & Grill, in Portland, OR. The back bar there at Paddy’s is an antique, predating that bar’s establishment in the 1980s.

[steveo]

Got this one hanging, London Stock Exchange....

Always admired the mustache and cigar...