Leon Golub

[American Painter, 1922-2004]

• Also known as:	Leon Albert Golub
• Relationships:	Husband of Nancy Spero.
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Original works by Leon Golub available for purchase at art galleries worldwide

Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
5 works by Leon Golub online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
White Squad, 1987

Leon Golub at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Orator II, lithograph, 1965
Wounded Sphinx II, lithograph, 1965

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Head (XV)

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Broad Art Foundation

Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina

Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German)
House of the Barking Dogs, 2003

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Head XXV, 1959

Jersey City Museum, New Jersey

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin   NEW!

Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Prisoners II, 1989

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Mercenaries II, 1979

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Mercenaries I

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Leon Golub at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Tate Gallery, London, UK
4 works online

University of Kentucky Art Museum
Columnar Head, 1958

Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Head I, 1966

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Information about Leon Golub's involvement with this late 1950s-early 1960s art movement

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Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

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artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Leon Golub at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
Leon Golub: Paintings (1950-2000)

Journal of Contemporary Art Online
Interview with Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Tate Magazine
Leon Golub on Max Beckmann

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Leon Golub: Existential-Activist Painter

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Do Paintings Bite?: Selected Texts 1948-1996

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