Statement

Leonard Rosenfeld was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1926. He was in World War II from 1945 through 1946. In about 1948 he studied painting at the Art Students League of New York for two years. In the mid-1950s he went to the "Cedar Bar" where he met Willem DeKooning and other abstract expressionists. The "New Art" was taking off. Painters engaged in painting chatter. They were excited by the downtown (10th Street) gallery scene. The big galleries uptown were selling buying abstract expressionism. Leonard Rosenfeld, realizing that the "New Art" was already an institution, went his own way. Rosenfeld's work is in private collections internationally, including in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Honduras, Mexico, South Africa and the USA.
LR
2005