(From JR: I wasn't a big fan of Neiman's sports paintings because I'm not a sports fan -- but I've always felt his style was absolutely brilliant at capturing *music* on canvas. Google his Frank Sinatra portrait, or any of his jazz-music paintings; it's like you can *see* the music.)
LeRoy Neiman, a wildly successful American artist who was famous for his colorful portraits of athletes in motion and who became an artistic fixture at such major sporting events as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, has died. He was 91.
Neiman, who was also a longtime contributor to Playboy magazine, died Wednesday in New York, said his longtime publicist, Gail Parenteau. A cause was not disclosed.
The accessible works of art he painted depicted sports and other leisure activities with bold, distinctive strokes on a canvas that invariably brimmed with color. ...
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