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1 day ago · Richard Avedon/Whitney Museum. By William Grimes. July 1, 2024, 10:46 p.m. ET. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous ...
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June Leaf, Influential Artist Whose Work Explored the Possibilities of Figuration, Dies at 94
June Leaf, a beloved artist whose beguiling, unclassifiable works explored the limits of the human body, died on Monday in New York at 94. The New York Times reported that she had been battling gastric cancer.
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June Leaf, artist who explored the female form, dies at 94 - The Boston Globe
At no point did the work align with prevailing trends in contemporary art, and for much of her life Ms. Leaf was overshadowed by her husband, photographer Robert Frank, whom she married in 1975 ...
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June Leaf (born 1929) is an American artist known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings; she also works in modernist kinetic sculpture. She is based in New York City, on Bleecker Street, and Mabou, Nova Scotia.
June Leaf (b. Chicago, 1929) lives and works in New York City and Mabou, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. For over seven decades, Leaf has explored the human figure, landscape, and mechanical systems in her drawings, paintings, and sculpture.
2 days ago · 1.4k. VIEWS. June Leaf, a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful or ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94. The cause was gastric cancer, said Andrea Glimcher, her agent at the Hyphen management firm and a friend.
Although Leaf is fully aware of such iconographic and art-historical precedents, the artist’s subjects are her own creations; her characters play specific roles in an intensely personal and richly imagined iconography completely dependent on its inventor.
Nov 1, 2022 · Over a career spanning more than seven decades, the 93-year-old artist June Leaf has stubbornly resisted art-world trends and easy categorization.
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Apr 27, 2016 · For nearly seven decades, June Leaf (b. 1929) has created a deeply imagined world of unreal creatures and settings that metaphorically probe the human condition. She has worked in a long tradition of visionary art, one especially prominent in the work of the Symbolists of the nineteenth century and which has continued more recently with ...
Jun 18, 2016 · June Leaf sculpts, paints and draws and she's been doing it for most of her 86 years. Now she's got a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
June Leaf (born 1929) is an American artist known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings; she also works in modernist kinetic sculpture. She is based in New York City, on Bleecker Street, and Mabou, Nova Scotia.