Professor Elam

Tuesday July  17, 2012

LeRoy Neiman was the official artist for five Olympiads. His work was prominently featured in Playboy in the heyday of his work during the 1950s –  1970s. 

today's WSJ featured a piece on the American Sport Art Museum and Archives in of all places, Daphne, AL.

Click to take a walking tour of the museum, I really like this feature. 

Since Tracy Hurley's daughters will be competing  at the London Olympics this Neiman of Fencers seems appropriate. One can literally feel the tensionand action just looking at the print. 

Explore and learn more at the Official LeRoy Neiman Website.

From his bio on the website

Mr. Neiman has revived an almost lost and time-honored art form," Carl J. Weinhardt observed in the catalog for the exhibition of Neiman's 1972 Olympics sketches, which was mounted that year by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In the Christian Science Monitor (May 2, 1972), Nick Seitz wrote that Neiman, who has been labeled an American Impressionist, "has the journalistic talent, as well as the artistic ability, to convey the essence of a game or contestant with great impact, from the Kentucky Derby to Wilt Chamberlain, from the America's Cup to Muhammad Ali, from the Super Bowl to Bobby Hull."