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John Porter Leeper Watercolor Painting

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John Porter Leeper Watercolor Painting
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20 3/4" by 16 5/8" in matte. John Porter Leeper (1909 - 1985) was active/lived in California, Arizona. John Leeper is known for Modernist genre, non objective painting. Born in Dandridge, Tennessee, John Leeper was known in Arizona for his mural painting and in California for watercolor abstractions, city genre, and female figural works. He was raised in Phoenix and studied art there for several years and then took further instruction at the Otis Art Institute. In the 1930s, he returned to Arizona and worked on murals for the Federal Relief Administration project until 1942. He taught art classes at The Phoenix Federal Art Center, a WPA project and forerunner of the Phoenix Art Museum. His Phoenix murals were in the Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Papago Park and in some of them, he depicted nude figures, which artist David Swing later painted over because they were thought to be offensive to tubercular patients. From 1942, Leeper resided in Southern California and there became a noted watercolorist of aspects of everyday life. Some paintings were of specific people, and others were more general views of city life. He painted both in his studio from on-site sketches and directly on location, en plein air. From the late 1950s to the 1970s, he painted in abstract style, using opaque paints and depicting landscapes with no recognizable subjects. Later he produced a series of "highly colorful translucent paintings of women posed for life drawing classes" (McClelland & Last). He also worked as a sketch artist in the motion picture industry. Allard Auction Collection Inv: MIH 13165