Sketchbook

Prints and Drawings

1951–53

LeRoy Neiman
American, 1921-2012

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.

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Artist: LeRoy Neiman
Title: Sketchbook
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 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.)
Credit Line: Gift of the LeRoy Neiman Foundation
Reference Number: 2015.26

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