LEONARD LEHRER

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Leonard Lehrer (1935-2018) is a painter and printmaker whose work results from his extensive world travel.  Lehrer is best known for his body of garden landscapes, tightly designed and structured into an organizing compositional grid of pure, geometric form. 

He has been shown internationally for three decades and had some fifty solo exhibitions in the United States, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Bibliotheque nationale de France, Paris and many others. His work has been noted critically and he has authored various catalogue introductions and articles and also has served as curator for two international exhibitions of contemporary American printmaking. Professor Emeritus of Art at New York University, Lehrer has held administrative positions at other major universities including Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico and presently is Associate Provost for External Affairs at Columbia College Chicago. Recipient of numerous awards including the Grand Prize of the Heitland Foundation, Celle, Germany, a USIA Specialist Grant to Bogota, Colombia and two Fulbright Senior Scholar Grants in printmaking (2001 and 2003-2005) to Greece.