LeRoy Neiman
LeRoy Neiman ( born June 8, 1921 in Saint Paul, Minnesota as Leslie LeRoy Runquist, † June 20, 2012 in New York) was an American painter who was best known for his expressive garish sports images.
Life
LeRoy Leslie Runquists Swedish -born father separated from the family when he was little. LeRoy then took the surname of his stepfather. After his military service, he enrolled at St. Paul School of Art and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago and then worked as an art teacher. From 1954 he worked for Playboy magazine, where he remained until his death and where he was sponsored by Art Paul and created the Femlinfigur for the joke page. From the 60s, he specialized in sports pictures and got into this field to great repute, he was admitted among other things, into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. The art critics, he was considered rather low, but he was in his lifetime one of the most popular painters of the United States.