LeRoy Neiman | Original The Hustler
Original The Hustler | LeRoy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman original, The Hustler, 1963, Acylic and enamel on board. 48 x 60.
Neiman began painting this piece on the set of the academy award winning movie The Hustler from which the piece is titled featuring Jackie Gleason and Paul Newman. The movie was shot almost exclusively in New York City where Neiman resides. Though he began it in 1960 it was not finished until 1963.
About The Artist: LeRoy Neiman
1955 - Current
LeRoy Neiman was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, De Paul University, and the University of Illinois. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago's school for ten years. Neiman moved to New York City in 1963 when he had his first one-man show at the Hammer Gallery. Since then he has continued to portray the people and events of the world he knows best, or which intrigue him most. His best-known works are sports scenes, a reflection, he believes, of the fact that sports are universally a dominant force. He was the official artist for ABC-TV at the Olympic Games in 1972 and 1976, and at the Winter Olympics of 1980. Neiman's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Hermitage in Leningrad. Some people will pronouce his name wrong and spell it Nieman,but we know who they are talking about.
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