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Whitney describes Leslie as an established Abstract Expressionist painter before his pivotal turn in 1962 to monumental figurative portraiture.
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1927–2023
Painter and filmmaker who achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist before deliberately turning toward monumental figurative portraiture in the early 1960s.
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Whitney describes Leslie as an established Abstract Expressionist painter before his pivotal turn in 1962 to monumental figurative portraiture.
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