LeRoy Neiman, artist , dies in NY

NEW YORK -- LeRoy Neiman, the painter and sketch artist best known for evoking the kinetic energy of the world's biggest sporting and leisure events with bright quick strokes, died Wednesday at age 91. Neiman also was a contributing artist at Playboy magazine for many years and official painter of five Olympiads. His longtime publicist Gail Parenteau confirmed his death Wednesday but didn't disclose the cause. In 1972, he sketched the world chess tournament between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, for a live television audience. He has been described as an American impressionist, but the St. Paul, Minn., native preferred to think of himself simply as an American artist.
Neiman was a self-described workaholic who seldom took vacations and had no hobbies. He ...