Sketchbook
LeRoy Neiman
1951–1953
- Medium
- Opaque and transparent watercolor, graphite, brush and pen and black ink, and colored chalk on ivory wove paper, in spiral-bound sketchbook
- Dimensions
- Closed: 30 × 46 × 2 cm (11 13/16 × 18 1/8 × 13/16 in.); Opened: 30 × 91.5 × 2 cm (11 13/16 × 36 1/16 × 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- sketchbook
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
sketchbookprints and drawingwatercolorpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
In this colorful spread from a sketchbook, Neiman depicted the North Avenue Beach, bordered by Chicago’s soaring skyscrapers. Drawn in the same year that Neiman’s friend Hugh Hefner founded Playboy magazine, the artist seemed here to capture the sort of lifestyle embodied by the magazine.
