How can I buy a work by Leslie Laskey?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Leslie Laskey. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Leslie Laskey in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of Saint Louis Art Museum, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Michigan Legacy Art Park.

What did Leslie Laskey make?

Woodcuts that move between plant and garden imagery and abstraction, and later paintings and collages in oil, acrylic, crayon and layered torn paper, made in yearly series such as Windows, Duets, La Leçon d’Anatomie and Amaryllis Land; he also made steel sculpture.

Has Leslie Laskey had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Then & Now (27 March to 29 May 2021) is one of his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Leslie Laskey

Leslie Laskey (1921–2021) was a St. Louis-based painter and printmaker who worked across woodcut, painting, collage, sculpture, photography, and poetry. His woodcuts, made from the early 1950s into the 2000s, move between plant and garden imagery and abstraction, and his later paintings and collages combine oil, acrylic, crayon, and layered torn paper.

Laskey worked in series, often on a new subject each year: windows in Windows (2013), pairs of forms in Duets (2017), anatomy in La Leçon d’Anatomie (2019), and the fallen amaryllis blossoms of his garden in Amaryllis Land (2020). He described his process as finding a rhythm and letting it lead him. He also made steel sculpture. He felt a kinship with the Japanese printmaker Shiko Munakata, whom Washington University invited to St. Louis in 1965.

Born in Eastlake, Michigan, near Manistee, Laskey served in the U.S. Army in World War II, landing at Omaha Beach on D-Day. He then studied with László Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design in Chicago and at Indiana University, and taught for three years at the School of Design in Raleigh, North Carolina, receiving a Rockefeller Foundation grant for work in the graphic arts.

In 1956 he joined Washington University’s School of Architecture, where he developed the basic design program; he became professor emeritus in 1987. His honors included the university’s Distinguished Faculty Award (1982), the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s Distinguished Professor Award (1985–86), and Dean’s Medals in 2004 and 2015.

He exhibited at the St. George Gallery in London, the Mark Pasek Gallery in New York, and the Print Club Gallery in Philadelphia, and his work is held by the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, and the Michigan Legacy Art Park. He was the subject of the 2012 documentary Forty-Seven Views of Leslie Laskey. Bruno David Gallery mounted 14 solo exhibitions of his work, ending with Then & Now, which opened in March 2021; he died in St. Louis on 17 June 2021, two weeks before his 100th birthday. The gallery represents his estate and in 2024 presented the retrospective Leslie Laskey: Woodcuts at the Columbia Archive Gallery in St. Louis.

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