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Leon Golub

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Leon Albert Golub (1922 - 2004) was active/lived in New York, Illinois.  Leon Golub is known for Modernist morose figure-genre and portrait painting, collage.

The following is from The New York Times, July 26, 2001

Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee
By AMEI WALLACH

I'm sort of political, sort of metaphysical, sort of wiseacre," Leon Golub is saying in his street-smart Chicago cadence. "When I paint a skull, I don't do it with eyebrows furrowed."

He has taken the more uncomfortable of the two chairs in his Greenwich Village studio, a battered metal affair, although his 79-year-old bones don't give him much relief. There's no more getting down on the floor to scrape a canvas, as in the old days in the 1980's, when he flayed the blood-red backgrounds behind his graphic, nearly 10- foot-high paintings of torturers, mercenaries and thugs with a meat cleaver.

Those paintings are the centerpiece of a retrospective, "Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000," organized by the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and on view at the Brooklyn Museum through Aug. 19. But as the exhibition makes explicit, they are only a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8731 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Leon Golub

   Publications  Book References:  72
Magazine References:  22

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22 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Leon Golub
Magazine Article Date Author Color
ARTFORUM Night Watchman November 2004 Marzorati, Gerald Yes
Art in America Front Page October 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Graphic Art in the Summer of Discon October 2004 Hirsch, Faye No
ARTnews National News-An Artist Who Painted October 2004 Wallach, Amei Yes
American Artist Quick Sketches August 2004 Editors, American Artist Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions June 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews April 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Auction fair review-art basel miami beach February 2004 Spiegler, Marc Yes
ARTnews Strikingly Diverse October 2003 Newhall, Edith Yes
Art in America Outside the Comfort Zone April 2002 McEvilley, Thomas Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews September 2001 Editors, Art Forum Yes
ARTFORUM Reviews September 2000 Editors, ARTforum Yes
American Art Review The American Century, Part 2 February 2000 Editors, American Art Review Yes
Art in America Photography:Between Horror and Hope November 1999 Hearntney, Eleanor Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions February 1999 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Where the Wild Things Were May 1997 Vine, Richard Yes
ARTnews Site Specifics April 1997 Landi, Ann Yes
ARTnews Reviews August 1996 Editors, Art News Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions May 1996 Editors, Art in America Yes
Art in America Mixed Messages May 1995 Vetrocq, Marcia E Yes
Art in America Learning from "Black Male" March 1995 Nochlin, Linda Yes
ARTnews REviews February 1995 Editors, ART NEWS Yes
72 Book References for Leon Golub
Year Author Title Pages Color
2007 Julie Sasse An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 165 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
2000 Bird, Jon Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real 224 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Hughes, Robert American Visions The Epic History of Art in America 635 Yes
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Dawtry, Liz (others) Investigating Modern Art 185 Yes
1996 Demetrion, James T (Introduction) Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art 166 Yes
1996 Sandler, Irving Art of the Postmodern Era From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s 636 Yes
1996 Wood, James N/T Edelstein The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture 160 Yes
1995 Berger, Maurice Notes in Time
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1995 Burnham, Patricia/L H Giese Redefining American History Paintng 409 No
1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward Art Today 512 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1994 Rubin, David S Old Glory The American Flag in Contemporary Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Gardner, James Culture or Trash? A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting (etc) 227 No
1993 McEvilley, Thomas The Exile's Return Toward a Redefinition of Painting 231 No
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D Contemporary Art 1965-1990 256 Yes
1992 Wood, Paul (others) Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties 267 Yes
1991 Hoffman, Katherine Explorations The Visual Arts since 1945 400 Yes
1991 Storr, Robert/J Tannenbaum Devil on the Stairs Looking Back on the Eighties
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1991 Thomas, David C As Seen By Both Sides: American And Vietnamese Artists 116 Yes
1990 Marzorati, Gerald A Painter of Darkness Leon Golub and Our Times 271 No
1989 Armstrong, Elizabeth First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists
(Exhibition catalog)		 149 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Naylor, Colin (editor) Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition) 1059 No
1988 Bellemare et al Stations (Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal)
(Exhibition catalog)		 207 Yes
1988 Siegel, Jeanne (editor) Artwords 2 Discourse on the Early 80s 319 No
1988 Wood, James N/Katherine Lee Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago 168 Yes
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Danto, Arthur C The State of the Art 228 Yes
1986 Hunter, Sam An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 269 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Marshall, Richard 50 New York Artists 118 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Ashton, Dore (Editor) Twentieth Century Artists on Art 302 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1985 Kuspit, Donald Leon Golub Existential /Activist Painter 213 Yes
1985 Siegel, Jeanne Artwords Discourse on the 60s and 70s 235 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Chicago, Museum Contemporary Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Selections from Permanent Collection 164 Yes
1984 Gumpert, Lynn/Ned Rifkin Golub
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1984 Lund Humphries Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols) 700 Yes
1984 Severinghaus, J Walter Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection 333 Yes
1983 Pradel, Jean-louise (editor) World Art Trends 200 Yes
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1980 Minnesota Museum of Art West '80 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)		 115 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1978 Bryant, Edward Leon Golub Portraits of Power
(Exhibition catalog)		 12 No
1978 Kirkpatrick, D/Charles Lewis Chicago, The City and Its Artists 1945-1978
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 Schwartz, Barry The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change 192 Yes
1973 Onn, Gerald (Translator) Phaidon Dictionary of Twentieth Century Art 0 No
1972 Schulze, Franz Fantastic Images Chicago Art since 1945 223 Yes
1970 Klein, Barbara Leon Golub Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 24 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1967 Hirsch, Richard Sources for Tomorrow: 50 American Paintings 1946-1966 James Michener Collection of Allentown Art Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)		 210 No
1964 Speyer, A James Leon Golub 1948-1963 Retrospective Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 20 No
1962 Museum of Modern Art Recent Painting U S A / The Figur
(Exhibition catalog)		 40 No
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
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