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Harvey Leepa
Harvey Leepa was born in Russia and studied at Oxford University, Academie Jean Paul Laurens, Ecole des Beaux Arts, and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, and immigrated to the United States in 1919, teaching at Columbia University.
"In 1937 Leepa departed from an expressionist style to experiment in a technique he later called fluxism. Using watercolor as a medium, he allowed flowing colors to combine freely on water-saturated paper and the finished composition gradually emerged as various portions were kept in flux. His early efforts in this technique were contemporary with the flux-paintings in oil and lacquer which Knud Merrild was creating in Los Angeles but there was no contact between the two artists. A few years later, Hans Hoffman painted some little dripped pictures, which in turn anticipated the monumental canvases of Jackson Pollock." (quote by Thomas W. Leavitt, director of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara News-Press, Sunday Morning, July 2, 1967)
Solo Exhibitions: Phoenix Art Museum, 1967; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1967; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego , Balboa Park, 1968; California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1968; Barnsdall Museum, Los Angeles Department of Municipal Art 1969.
Selected Group Exhibitions: California National Watercolor Society, 49th Annual Exhibition, 1969 (prize)
Source: Carlson Research Library, Carmel, CA
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