Folder 492
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News release from Grand Central Art Galleries regarding Collier's article describing Leigh as "America's 'Sagebrush Rembrandt' ", early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.276.5
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Folder 492
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early 20th century
News release from Grand Central Art Galleries inviting recipient of release to attend exhibit of Western water colors by Leigh, early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.276.6
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page document]
[printed red letterhead text]NEWS
GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES
15 VANDERBILT AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N. Y.
Telephone: MUrray Hill 6-4737FOR INFORMATION - CALL:[remainder of text is typed] EXHIBIT OF W. R. LEIGH’S
WESTERN WATER COLORS[line of dashes separate the heading from the body of the text]A select group of...
Dates:
early 20th century
News release from Grand Central Art Galleries regarding Leigh's painting "Writing the Epitaph", early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.276.7-.9
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [Page 1]
[cursive handwritten date in ink at top of page] Aug - 1944[printed red letterhead text]NEWS
GRAND CENTRAL ART GALLERIES
15 VANDERBILT AVENUE, NEW YORK 17, N. Y.
Telephone: MUrray Hill 6-4737FOR INFORMATION - CALL:[remainder of text is typed] FOR RELEASE DE VALERA ACCEPTS GIFT OF PAINTING BY AMERICAN ARTIST Eamon...
Dates:
early 20th century
Article for immediate release regarding Leigh's Retrospective Painting Exhibition in Maryland, early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.277.1
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed]1953 or 54 [noted in pencil at top of page]Publicity: Helen Shelley
1680 Broadway (5th Floor)
New York 19. CO. 5-2077 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENEWS about
Retrospective Painting Exhibition - 1906-1954
of W. R. LEIGH
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts
Hagerstown, Md., Feb.28 - March 31, inclusive Never can it be said that William Robinson LEIGH,...
Dates:
early 20th century
Speech given by Miss Gaynell Brown at the Annual Meeting of the New York Federation of Women's Clubs where Leigh was a speaker, early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.277.4
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed document]The speech of Miss Gaynell Brown, Chairman of Art Awards, at the Annual Meeting of the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs, at the Hotel Astor, New York, May 4, 1951:[line of dashes separate the above text from the remarks below]Madam President, Honored Guests, and Members of the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs: To...
Dates:
early 20th century
Article for immediate release regarding Scroll Award presented to Leigh by the NY City Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc., early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.277.5
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed document]NEWS ABOUT:Scroll Award to W. R. Leigh
by the Fine Arts Dept. of the
N. Y. CITY FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S
CLUBS, INC. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mrs. Claire M. Senie, President of the New York City Federation of Women’s Clubs, Inc., announces that William R. Leigh whom Collier’s on November 11th last, called “America’s Sagebrush Rembrandt” has...
Dates:
early 20th century
Article "Exhibition of Western Paintings by W. R. Leigh" at the Grand Central Art Galleries, early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.277.6
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed] EXHIBITION OF WESTERN PAINTINGS BY W. R. LEIGH On Tuesday, January 11, the Grand Central Art Galleries, 15 Vanderbilt Avenue, will open a large one-man show of recent works by William R. Leigh, who is the one living member of that trio of great American artists — the other two being of course Remington and Charles Russell — who have achieved fame as delineators of the...
Dates:
early 20th century
New release from Grand Central Art Galleries, "William R. Leigh, Last Great Painter of the Old West, Opens Large Exhibition of New Paintings", early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.279.10
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Folder 492
Dates:
early 20th century
Article regarding Leigh's painting "Buffalo Hunt" on blue paper, early 20th century
Item — Folder: 492
Identifier: 5327.535
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Folder 492 Transcript (DCI) [single page typed document on blue paper] BUFFALO HUNT
a painting by
W. R. LeighThe first impression produced by this painting is of tumult — of tremendous noise and heat and angry flow of weight. One is immediately convinced that a buffalo hunt looked like this, for Mr. Leigh’s command of realistic depiction is complete. The sweating, savage Indians, the wildly struggling herd...
Dates:
early 20th century