Leslie Marr - Artist Info

About Leslie Marr

  • Biography

    Sir Leslie Lynn Marr was a landscape artist and former race car driver. He studied engineering at Pembroke College, Cambridge before pursuing his artistic training. After serving as a technician for the Royal Air Force during World War II, he attended life drawing classes at Heatherley’s Art School and studied under David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic. Marr was also a student of Bomberg and an important figure of the Borough Group. He was married to Dinora Mendelson, the daughter of Lilian Holt and stepdaughter of David Bomberg, between 1948 and 1956....

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