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Born 1931 New York City. Known for: Classical real still life and portrait painting, teaching.
Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. His childhood was quite different from most children as he... Read full biography
Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. His childhood was quite different from most children as he spent eleven years, from the ages of 4 until 15, in the hospital with osteomyelitis, a bone disease.... Read full biography
Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. His childhood was quite different from most children as he spent eleven years, from the ages of 4 until 15, in the hospital with osteomyelitis, a bone disease. During this time, he developed a love of art expression, especially drawing. Following high school graduation, Leffel attended Parsons School of Design and Fordham University and worked odd jobs in... Read full biography
Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. His childhood was quite different from most children as he spent eleven years, from the ages of 4 until 15, in the hospital with osteomyelitis, a bone disease. During this time, he developed a love of art expression, especially drawing. Following high school graduation, Leffel attended Parsons School of Design and Fordham University and worked odd jobs in California and New York. He enrolled in the Art Students League in New York, 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... Read full biography
Born and raised in New York City, David Leffel is a painter in the style of early Dutch and Flemish painters such as Vermeer and Rembrandt. His childhood was quite different from most children as he spent eleven years, from the ages of 4 until 15, in the hospital with osteomyelitis, a bone disease. During this time, he developed a love of art expression, especially drawing. Following high school graduation, Leffel attended Parsons School of Design and Fordham University and worked odd jobs in California and New York. He enrolled in the Art Students League in New York, 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 with his partner, Sherrie Mc Graw, also an artist. They have a home "with a stunning... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Chiaroscuro, Light and Dark or Tenebrism
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Interior Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
- •Still Life
Art Association
- •Artists of America
- •Oil Painters of America
- •Oil Painters of America-Signature Member
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Teacher
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Student
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Artists of America, Denver Rotary Club
- •National Academy of Western Art-
- •Oil Painters of America-
Exhibition of Special Venue, Art Parks
- •Prix de West Invitational