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Neiman married Janet Byrne in 1957. They lived in New York City, their home base for over five decades, until Neiman's death. Their residence, inside a New York City landmark, the Hotel des Artistes over the Café des Artistes on West 67th Street, originally intended for painters, is made up of double-height rooms that overlook Central Park. [6]
The set sold for $5.7 million at Christie's evening contemporary art sale in New York in May 2011. [7] A portrait of Muhammad Ali from the series, consigned to auction by Weisman's ex-wife, sold at Christie's New York for $9.2 million in 2007. [6] In November 2019, a set was offered as individual lots at Christie's in New York, sold for a ...
In high school, Gangloff began creating large-scale paintings in the attic of an old barn owned by her parents in Amityville, New York. [1] While studying for her B.F.A. at Cooper Union, the artist continued to paint murals and large-scale works. Working large allowed the artist to feel that she was embedded "in [a] color-field with the paint ...
Stephen Holland (born 1941) is an American artist, known for his portraits of athletes and celebrities such as Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, Joe DiMaggio, Tiger Woods and David Beckham. [1] His work is held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, [2] the American Sports Art Museum and Archives [3] and the Staples Center ...
Portraits, Inc., is the world's oldest and largest commissioned portrait company. [1] Founded in New York City in 1942, Portraits, Inc. specializes in commissioned paintings or sculptures. [2] Today the agency represents over 100 of today's commissioned portrait artists.
Terry Winters, New York City, September 2001 Terry Winters, Dumb Compass, 1985, oil on linen, 94 × 132 inches. Terry Winters (born 1949, Brooklyn, NY) is an American painter, draughtsman, and printmaker whose nuanced approach to the process of painting has addressed evolving concepts of spatiality and expanded the concerns of abstract art.
Michael Murphy (born March 22, 1975) is an American artist, sculptor and pioneer of the perceptual art movement. Murphy became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, after creating the first portrait of candidate Barack Obama in 2007 that influenced thousands of artists [1] to contribute to the "Art for Obama" movement, [2] documented in Shepard Fairey's book Art for Obama ...
In 2017, for her portrait for the National Portrait Gallery, former First Lady Michelle Obama chose the artist Amy Sherald, who like Obama is African American. [1] Both the President and First Lady met with Sherald as a candidate to paint their respective portraits, but Sherald and Michelle Obama had an immediate connection.