Golub, Leon

Golub, Leon
▪ 2005

      American painter (b. Jan. 21, 1922, Chicago, Ill.—d. Aug. 8, 2004, New York, N.Y.), expressed his strong opposition to the Vietnam War through his series of paintings entitled Napalm, Vietnam, and Assassins. His monumental paintings typically depicted acts of brutality, revealing truths about both the attackers and the victims. He was married to the noted painter Nancy Spero.

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▪ American artist
in full  Leon Albert Golub 
born Jan. 23, 1922, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
died Aug. 8, 2004, New York, N.Y.

      American figurative painter whose monumental paintings typically depicted acts of brutality, revealing truths about both the attackers and the victims.

      Golub attended the University of Chicago (B.A., 1942) before enlisting in the army. After service in World War II, he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (B.F.A., 1949; M.F.A., 1950). Golub married artist Nancy Spero in 1951 and taught briefly at Northwestern University and Indiana University before moving to Paris in 1959. Returning to the United States in 1964, Golub became active in the Vietnam-era peace movement. His reaction against human brutality and the savagery of war led him to an expressionistic and dramatic use of the human figure in monumental and rough-hewn paintings that often took inspiration from Greek tragedy and ancient mythology. Many of his paintings in the 1960s and '70s were commentaries on the Vietnam War. Another group of paintings, his Mercenaries series, profiled the harshness of paramilitary soldiers at work in places such as South Africa and Latin America. During this period Golub abandoned the stretcher, allowing his unstretched canvases to hang from eyelets placed along the top of each canvas. This feature gave his works a sense of immediacy, and his abraded surfaces gave them a raw and gritty quality. In canvases such as Interrogation II (1981), he further challenged observers by having his sadistic figures stare out into the viewers' space as if to make them privy to and complicit in the brutal acts portrayed.

Additional Reading
Jon Bird, Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real (2000), an exhibition catalogue; Donald Kuspit, Leon Golub, Existential/Activist Painter (1985; also published as The Existential/Activist Painter: The Example of Leon Golub, 1986); Gerald Marzorati, A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times (1990).

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