Leon Golub (Leon Albert Golub)
Leon Golub
American 20th-21st century American painter and printmaker
(Chicago, Illinois, 1/23/1922 – 8/8/2004, New York, NY)
from the Tate Gallery; Leon Golub (January 23, 1922 – August 8, 2004) was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, and his BFA and MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and 1950, respectively.
He was married to and collaborated with the artist Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009).
Britannic online calls Golub an "American figurative painter whose monumental paintings typically depicted acts of brutality, revealing truths about both the attackers and the victims."
4 objects
1989
lithograph on paper
Anonymous Gift and Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
1990.33
1988
chromolithograph on Arches Cover white paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
1989.23.1
1988
chromolithograph on Arches Cover white paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
1989.23.2
1993
screenprint on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.123
