Label Text
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
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)
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)
