Tom Loepp
{{short description|American painter}}
Tom Loepp (born June 4, 1954) is an American figurative, portrait and landscape painter.
Life
Loepp grew up in Wyoming, Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma. He began his art studies in 1972 at the Art Students Academy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then moved to New York City in 1976 and studied at the Art Students League of New York; this was followed by a year of travel through Europe. He returned to New York, where he painted cityscapes, some from atop the World Trade Center, and began a career as a portrait painter. In 2001 he returned to Wyoming.
In 1994 Loepp painted a portrait of Chief Justice William Rehnquist for the United States Supreme Court.[https://books.google.com/books?id=zYoXoYFhHzwC&dq=tom+loepp+rehnquist&pg=PT22 Obermayer, p. xxii] The painting was subsequently placed near Rehnquist's coffin when his body lay in state after his death in 2005; the New York Times described the painting as showing "the four gold stripes with which the chief justice decorated each sleeve of his judicial robe and depicts him with a slightly bemused expression".[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/politics/politicsspecial1/07rehnquist.html The New York Times]
In addition to the Supreme Court, Loepp's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, Stanford Law School, University of Chicago, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[http://www.hewlett.org/ William and Flora Hewlett Foundation] He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Nicolaysen Art Museum[http://www.thenic.org Nicolaysen Art Museum] and the Dahl Arts Center in South Dakota.[http://www.thedahl.org/past.html Dahl Arts Center]
Loepp has taught drawing and painting in numerous venues, including the Art Students League of New York,[http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/About/History/InstructorsandLecturers.aspx ASL instructors] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030357/http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/About/History/InstructorsandLecturers.aspx |date=2016-03-04 }} the National Academy in New York City and the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle[http://www.gageacademy.org/artists/?page=instructors&i_id=73 Gage Academy]
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References
- [http://www.gageacademy.org/artists/?page=instructors&i_id=73 Gage Academy]
- [http://www.thenic.org Nicolaysen Art Museum]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030357/http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/About/History/InstructorsandLecturers.aspx Instructors and Lecturers - Past and Present, Art Students League of New York]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=WL8BAAAAMBAJ&dq=tom+loepp+artist&pg=PA88 Larson, Kay. Italian Fantasies, New York Facts, New York Magazine Nov 21, 1983.]
- [https://www.oyez.org/justices/william_h_rehnquist Portrait of William Rehnquist, OYEZ]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zYoXoYFhHzwC&dq=tom+loepp+rehnquist&pg=PT22 Obermayer, Herman. Rehnquist: A Personal Portrait of the Distinguished Chief Justice of the United States. Simon and Schuster, 2009]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/politics/politicsspecial1/07rehnquist.html Bush and First Lady Visit Rehnquist's Coffin at Court The New York Times, September 7, 2005]
External links
- [http://www.tomloepp.com Tom Loepp official website]
- [http://www.wyoportraits.com/index.html Loepp as subject of Wyoming Portraits, broadcast on Wyoming Public Television]
- [http://www.barnard.edu/headlines/last-image-2 Portrait of Judith R. Shapiro], president of Barnard College
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Category:Painters from New York City
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:American male painters
Category:21st-century American painters