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June Leaf BIOGRAPHY
1929 Chicago, Illinois - 2024 Manhattan, New York. Known for: Abstract figure, modernist kinetic sculpture, painting.
Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1954, and an M.A. in Art Education from the Institute of... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1954, and an M.A. in Art Education from the Institute of Design. She also studied in Paris, France. She has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and Mabou, Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, with her husband, photographer Robert Frank... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1954, and an M.A. in Art Education from the Institute of Design. She also studied in Paris, France. She has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and Mabou, Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, with her husband, photographer Robert Frank (they sometimes collaborate, with Leaf painting and drawing on his photographs). She has several times been a visiting artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Leaf's wood and welded sculptures such as Centaur Woman and Figure on a Hoist,... Read full biography
Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1954, and an M.A. in Art Education from the Institute of Design. She also studied in Paris, France. She has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and Mabou, Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, with her husband, photographer Robert Frank (they sometimes collaborate, with Leaf painting and drawing on his photographs). She has several times been a visiting artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Leaf's wood and welded sculptures such as Centaur Woman and Figure on a Hoist, some with movable parts, may suggest childhood toys but comment, like her paintings, on feminist* iss... Read full biography
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Painter-sculptor June Leaf was born in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, where she studied at the New Bauhaus, Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, 1947-1948. She received her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University, Chicago, in 1954, and an M.A. in Art Education from the Institute of Design. She also studied in Paris, France.
She has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and Mabou, Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada, with her husband, photographer Robert Frank (they sometimes collaborate, with Leaf painting and drawing on his photographs). She has several times been a visiting artist at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
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