![]() ![]() Among the items Erb and Goldfarb have unearthed is a catalogue from a 1947 exhibition of American Surrealism at the Art Institute of Chicago that included a painting by Leiter, who was then twenty-four. Leiter, who was born in 1923, started taking pictures in adolescence, but despite showing early promise as a photographer and painter he mostly remained obscure. Primitive trinkets and vintage toys, including a Mickey Mouse doll, sit on the mantle canvases of folk and Japanese art lean against the walls. ![]() Figurative paintings by Soames Bantry, Leiter’s partner, hang alongside his own abstract watercolors. Old saucers that he used as palettes are stacked on the window ledge above a quiet courtyard. A high-backed wooden chair, where he painted and drank coffee, sits in a corner of a large room lit by a wall of windows. The apartment today is far more organized than it was when Leiter died, but evidence of his life is everywhere. ![]()
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