The Picture

Adrift

Everyday Epic

Some men and women are so gloriously alive that even years after their deaths it is difficult to believe they are no longer with us. That is how I feel about the painter Leland Bell, who died of leukemia in 1991 at the age of 69. Lee’s great theme was vitality, gusto. To make a painting was his way of celebrating the life force. He worked on his canvases incessantly, obsessively, infusing his finest figure compositions with the rhythmic exuberance of chromatic harlequinades. READ MORE >>

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