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June Leaf
June Leaf (August 4, 1929 – July 1, 2024) was an American visual artist known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings; she also worked in modernist kinetic sculpture. She was based in New York City, on Bleecker Street in NoHo, and Mabou, Nova Scotia.
June Leaf was born on August 4, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois, to Ruth (Ettleson) Leaf and Phillip Leaf. She studied ballet and created sculptures, then was enrolled for three months between 1947 and 1948 at the Institute of Design (formerly known as the New Bauhaus), taking classes with artist Hugo Weber. She left school and traveled to Paris in 1948, focusing on creating and identifying abstraction and patterns in her work.
In 1954, she returned to the school for her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University and the same year her M.A. degree in Art Education at Institute of Design.
Leaf returned to Paris in 1958–1959 with a Fulbright Grant for painting. When she returned, she moved to New York City in 1960.
In 1970, Leaf purchased a home on Cape Breton's western coast in Mabou, where she also built a studio.
She married filmmaker and photographer, Robert Frank in 1975.
In 2016, the Whitney Museum of American Art held the retrospective exhibition "June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite." In the same year, another retrospective was held at the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, entitled "June Leaf: A Survey, 1949-Present".
Her work is included in many permanent art collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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June Leaf
June Leaf (August 4, 1929 – July 1, 2024) was an American visual artist known for her abstract allegorical paintings and drawings; she also worked in modernist kinetic sculpture. She was based in New York City, on Bleecker Street in NoHo, and Mabou, Nova Scotia.
June Leaf was born on August 4, 1929, in Chicago, Illinois, to Ruth (Ettleson) Leaf and Phillip Leaf. She studied ballet and created sculptures, then was enrolled for three months between 1947 and 1948 at the Institute of Design (formerly known as the New Bauhaus), taking classes with artist Hugo Weber. She left school and traveled to Paris in 1948, focusing on creating and identifying abstraction and patterns in her work.
In 1954, she returned to the school for her B.A. degree in Art Education from Roosevelt University and the same year her M.A. degree in Art Education at Institute of Design.
Leaf returned to Paris in 1958–1959 with a Fulbright Grant for painting. When she returned, she moved to New York City in 1960.
In 1970, Leaf purchased a home on Cape Breton's western coast in Mabou, where she also built a studio.
She married filmmaker and photographer, Robert Frank in 1975.
In 2016, the Whitney Museum of American Art held the retrospective exhibition "June Leaf: Thought Is Infinite." In the same year, another retrospective was held at the Edward Thorp Gallery in New York, entitled "June Leaf: A Survey, 1949-Present".
Her work is included in many permanent art collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.