| 词条 | Edward Leffingwell |
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Leffingwell was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania, on December 3, 1941.[1] In the mid-1960s he moved to New York City and began associating with Max's Kansas City and the Warhol Factory crowd.[1] During the 1960s and 1970s he was involved with a variety of avant-garde art projects, including a 1969 film by sculptor John Chamberlain ("The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez").[1] In the late 1970s Leffingwell left New York to take care of his mother, who was ill, and began to transition to a curatorial career in the arts.[1] He entered Youngstown State University, completing a B.A. in 1982, and went on in 1984 to earn an M.A. in art history from the University of Cincinnati.[1] In 1985 he was hired by PS1, now affiliated with New York's Museum of Modern Art.[1] Leffingwell organized a number of key exhibitions, including two while he was in school. His first exhibition, in 1983, was at the Butler: "Chinese Chance: An American Collection", which profiled the collection of Leffingwell's long-time associate, Mickey Ruskin, who had been one of the owners of Max's Kansas City.[1] His next major exhibition was at the University of Cincinnati, reviewing Lawrence Weiner, a conceptual artist.[1] Over the next several years Leffingwell organized several significant shows. In New York, he developed a 20-year retrospective of sculptor John McCracken ("John McCracken: Heroic Stance") and a 1987 show of artist Michael Tracy ("Michael Tracy: Terminal Privileges").[4] In 1997 at P.S.1 he organized a retrospective of the work of artist and filmmaker Jack Smith[1][5] ("Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times").[3] He also organized a show on James Rosenquist,[5] and "About Place: Contemporary American Landscape" (1986).[3] Leffingwell spent four years in Los Angeles, directing the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park from 1988 to 1992.[1] There he organized an exhibition of George Herms, and a proposed biennial show, The Los Angeles Exhibition, a contemporary art exhibition spanning seven to eight institutions.[1][2] During this time Leffingwell became interested in and associated with Brazilian art and the São Paulo Art Biennial.[1] For that biennial, he organized a show on the painter Neil Williams, one of long-time friends and associates.[1] Leffingwell wrote prolifically, penning hundreds of reviews and critical essays for Art in America, as well as contributing to scholarship on artist Lawrence Weiner, photographer Joe Deal,[2] artist Judith Murray,[3] Claude Monet and Jack Smith.[5] Leffingwell died from cardiac arrest in Flushing, Queens, on August 5, 2014, at the age of 72, after suffering from Parkinson's disease.[1][3] Biography
Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Roberta Smith, [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/arts/edward-g-leffingwell-curator-dies-at-72.html "Edward G. Leffingwell, Curator, Dies at 72"] (obituary), New York Times, Aug. 19, 2014. {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Leffingwell, Edward G.}}2. ^1 2 Steve Chawkins, "Edward Leffingwell Dies at 72; Former Director of the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery" (obituary), Los Angeles Times, Aug. 15, 2014. 3. ^1 2 3 4 Elizabeth Fazzare, "Edward Leffingwell, 1941-2014" (obituary), Art in America, Aug. 13, 2014. 4. ^Michael Brenson, [https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/06/arts/art-religious-works-by-michael-tracy.html "Art: Religious Works by Michael Tracy"] (review), New York Times, Nov. 6, 1987. 5. ^1 2 Andrew Russeth, "Critic and Curator Edward Leffingwell Dies at 72" (obituary), ARTnews, Aug. 15, 2014. 7 : American art critics|American curators|1941 births|2014 deaths|People associated with the Museum of Modern Art (New York)|Youngstown State University alumni|University of Cincinnati alumni |
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