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Leslie has established himself as an abstract painter but then felt compelled to make, instead, images of the human body. Many of his portraits are so direct that they are confrontational. The tension in the hands is just one factor making one wonder about this woman's frame of mind.

Source: DMAC Gallery Guide, From Body to Being, February 1 - May 4, 1997


Exhibition History"From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image," Des Moines Art Center, Feb. 1 - May 4, 1997
Published ReferencesAN UNCOMMON VISION: THE DES MOINES ART CENTER, Des Moines Art Center, 1998, ref. pp.36 & 168, color detail p.168, color ill. p.169

DMAC News, Sept./Oct. 1994, p.2
DimensionsFrame: 71 1/4 × 42 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (181 × 107.3 × 4.4 cm)
Sheet: 69 × 40 in. (175.3 × 101.6 cm)
Accession Number 1994.12
Classificationswork on paper
SignedAlfred Leslie 1968 (down p,r side in charcoal)
Inscriptions#3-Jane Elford 1968 (top in charcoal)
Jane Elford #3
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Leslie
1961
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred-Alexandre Delauney
date unknown
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Kubin
1925
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Kubin
1924
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Alfred Henry Maurer
1928
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1993
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1980
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Byron Leslie Burford
1970