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from Auction House Records.
Bittersweet and Peaches
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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Biography from Whistle Pik Galleries:
| David A. Leffel was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1931. He was only four years old when he drew his father's hat. After that first drawing, he and friends often competed to see who could draw the best comic book characters.
He enrolled in Parson's School of Design after high school where he studied advertising and design. Following a series of jobs as a commercial artist he left the constraints of business and commercial art to pursue his own personal ideas.
In 1959-1960, Leffel studied at the Art Student's League in New York City. There he developed the chiaroscuro technique that has led to his frequent tribute as a "20th-century old master." In 1972 Leffel returned to the Art Students League as an instructor.
Under the influence of the great 17th-century Dutch masters, especially Rembrandt, Leffel's work reflects a personal belief that a painting must convey a sense of mystery and beauty. Throughout the interplay of light and shadow, through texture and shape and color, Leffel transforms the simple and ubiquitous objects of everyday life into rich creations of enigma and presence.
Although he concentrates much of his efforts on still lifes and portraits, since his move to New Mexico in 1992, Leffel has done more landscape paintings with strong skies, dark clouds, and a magnificent shaft of light. For the self-described light and shadow painter, the canvas presents the challenge to create "beauty and simplicity through colors, textures, shapes, lights, and darks, as they are the tools of the artist. If he can see."
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Biography from AskART:
| Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel spent eleven years from
the ages of 4 until 15 in the hospital with osteomyelitis, a bone
disease. A primary interest was drawing.
Following high school graduation, he attended Parsons School of Design
and then worked odd jobs in California and New York. He then
enrolled in the Art Students League and eventually taught there for 20
years.
In the 1970s, he took illustration jobs to make money and, having
returned full time to his own painting, moved in 1992 to Taos, New
Mexico. He conducts workshops throughout the country including
Fredericksburg, Texas and Scottsdale, Arizona.
Source: Art of the West, July 2004 |
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