June 8, 1921 – June 20, 2012
“It’s been fun. I’ve had a lucky life,” Neiman said in a June 2008 interview with The Associated Press. “I’ve zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence. ... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.”
Sports world artist LeRoy Neiman, official painter of 5 Olympiads, dies in NY at age 91 - The Washington Post
