Over a career spanning nearly 60 years, Jewish-American artist Joanne Leonard (b. 1940, Los Angeles, CA) has poignantly captured scenes of sincerity and pensiveness in both private and public spheres. The Jewish Museum is honored to have received from Leonard a gift of 11 artworks that are now a part of the collection. This body of work represents a comprehensive cross section of Leonard’s multidisciplinary practice, including photography, collage, and mixed media dimensional pieces, each emblematic of a genre she describes as “intimate documentary.” Continue reading to learn more about some of the works in the gift.
The Strange and Incomparable Life of Robert Voyles
Forty years separated Robert Voyles and I until that morning in Natchez. The circumstances surrounding our meeting were the same as finding lasagna at…