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Publicist: Artist LeRoy Neiman dies in NY at 91

Thursday, June 21, 2012

** FILE ** This file photo from Aug. 31, 2007 shows artist LeRoy Neiman, perhaps the most popular living American artist,as he poses in his studio in New York. Neiman has donated $1 million to create a permanent home for a Harlem community arts center. Neiman, who is best known for his colorful and energetic paintings of sporting events, plans to attend the ribbon cutting for the Arts Horizons LeRoy Neiman Art Center Tuesday June 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews,File) (AP Photo)

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Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - June 20, 2012 (WPVI) -- Painter and sketch artist LeRoy Neiman has died in New York at age 91.

He was best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes. He was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years and was the official painter of five Olympiads.

His longtime publicist Gail Parenteau says he died Wednesday. She hasn't disclosed the cause of his death.

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Neiman was a media-savvy artist who knew how to enthrall audiences with his instant renditions of what he observed. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Iceland for a live television audience.

He also produced live drawings of the Olympics for TV and was the official computer artist of the Super Bowl for CBS.

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