Al Leslie
- January 9, 2024
- Artist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Al Leslie |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Date Of Birth | Oct 29, 1927(1927-10-29) |
| Age | 97 |
| Birthplace | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Scorpio |
Al Leslie Biography
| Name | Al Leslie |
| Birthday | Oct 29 |
| Birth Year | 1927 |
| Place Of Birth | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Al Leslie is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on October 29, 1927 in New York, United States.
Alfred Leslie was born in New York. After service in the US Coast Guard at the end of World War II, Leslie studied art at New York University, the Art Students League, and Pratt Institute. A bodybuilder and hand-balancer, Leslie posed for artist Reginald Marsh and others and modeled for classes at the Art Students League and Pratt Institute. Anticipating the Situationist International’s detournement, his 1949 film Magic Thinking combined black-and- white cartoons, home movies, GI training films, industrial commercials, strip footage and old feature films. To raise the $250 required of by Tibor de Nagy Gallery to exhibit there in 1952, he appeared on Strike It Rich, an early reality television program, and won. His 1952 exhibition included The Bed- Sheet Painting, a 12 by 16 foot, black painting with a scumbled surface and white bar mounted on unstretched canvas. In the ’50s, he made sculptures using seemingly insignificant materials such as plumber’s tape, stapes, grommets, nails, housepaint. Anticipating John Chamberlain’s sculptures made from recycled cars, Leslie tied together car mufflers and tail pipes with rope after hammering and reassembling them. In 1955, a collector gave him a Polaroid camera, driving him to take hundreds of police-style mugshots, of which only photos of Sam Francis and Al Held survived.
Leslie is also known for his large scale charcoal drawings, and for his work as a photographer and filmmaker. Together with Robert Frank, Leslie directed the short film Pull My Daisy in 1959. The film, narrated by Jack Kerouac, was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 1996. He also created the films Directions: A Walk after the War Games (1946-9), The Last Clean Shirt with the poet Frank O’Hara (1964), The Cedar Bar (2001), Einstein’s Secret (2008) and the animated film The New York Story (1963).
Al Leslie Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Artist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Al Leslie is one of the richest Artist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Al Leslie 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Alfred Leslie (born October 29, 1927) is an American artist and filmmaker. He first achieved success as an Abstract Expressionist painter, but changed course in the early 1960s and became a painter of realistic figurative paintings.
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