Illustrations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents viii
3. Illustrations xi
4. INTRODUCTION Pure Neimanism 1
5. PART 1 Underdog
6. 1 LeRoy Runquist 13
7. 2 Street Artist 38
8. 3 A Roguish Role Model 59
9. 4 Midwestern Bohemian 69
10. 5 A Reporter Type of Painter 92
11. PART 2 Celebrity
12. 6 Hefner’s Court Painter 109
13. 7 Playboy’s Norman Rockwell 135
14. 8 The Sports Artist 159
15. 9 At the Hotel des Artistes 180
16. 10 The Heavyweight Champion of Art 188
17. 11 TV Artist in a Xerox Society 205
18. 12 Middle America’s Michelangelo 229
19. PART 3 Outcast
20. 13 Bringing Disease to the Hospital 259
21. 14 The LeRoy Neiman of . . . 275
22. 15 The Price and Cost of Legitimacy 293
23. 16 All Told 315
24. CONCLUSION Fame and Legacy 330
25. Acknowledgments 339
26. Notes 343
27. Index 375