Alan Leitner (born 1947) is an American abstract painter.

Biography

He was born in 1947 in an ethnically diverse section of Los Angeles. Alan was the middle of three children in a Jewish family. He received his B.S. in art in 1971 from

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in Los Angeles, where he met his first wife who wanted to move to Hawaii. Also in 1971, he acquired an art foundry that produced blown glass, sculpture, ceramics and paintings, which contributed greatly to his understanding of art. In 1987, he received a M.F.A. in painting from the

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. The graduate program required students to do some teaching, and through this teaching he met Alyn Brownley who at the time headed the art program at

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. Brownley requested Alan to teach her art class for one semester while she pursued a move to

. After graduation, Dr. John Conner, the department associate dean, offered Alan a full-time teaching position at

, where he is currently a professor.Leeward Community College website
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. Leitner's art is abstract, utilizing muted earth tones as the main colors. He often affixes various objects to his canvases. ''Untitled #4'', in the collection of the

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, is typical of his later work.

Footnotes

References

* Clarke, Joan and Diane Dods, ''Artists/Hawaii'', Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1996, 32–37. * Hartwell, Patricia L. (editor), ''Retrospective 1967-1987'',

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, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1987, p. 71 * International Art Society of Hawai'i, ''Kuilima Kākou, Hawai’i-Japan Joint Exhibition'', Honolulu, International Art Society of Hawai'i, 2004, p. 27 * Morse, Marcia and Allison Wong, ''10 Years: The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center'', The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2006, , p. 73 * Wong, Allison, ''10 Years - The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center - Tenth Anniversary Exhibition'', The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2006, , p. 73 * Yoshihara, Lisa A., ''Collective Visions, 1967-1997'', awaiiState Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1997, 118. {{DEFAULTSORT:Leitner, Alan 1947 births Living people 20th-century American male artists 20th-century American painters 21st-century American Jews 21st-century American male artists 21st-century American painters American abstract painters Jewish American artists Painters from Hawaii Woodbury University alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty