Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
LeRoy NeimanI have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.
LeRoy NeimanMy lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.
LeRoy NeimanI played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.
LeRoy NeimanIt has been difficult to hold onto many paintings but I have retained a few. Possibly the current favorite is titled 'Big Band' completed in 2005. It measures 13 feet x 9 feet. It has 18 nearly life size recognizable portraits of the biggest jazz stars that I knew and saw perform in the 1950s, '60s, '70s, '80s and includes Wynton Marsalis.
LeRoy Neiman