Alfred Leslie (b. 1927)

"Leslie's work has an indisputable signature: the architecture, the wielding of the loaded brush, and the consistently present double vertical bands. Whether it is a large oil on canvas or a miniature collage, his work is immediately identifiable. His small works have great scale and his large works project an even grander sense of scale. This combined with Leslie's color sense creates a body of work that epitomizes the power and dynamic of postwar American abstract painting."
A. Stone quoted in Alfred Leslie: Expressing the Zeitgeist , exh. cat., Allan Stone Gallery, 2004, p. 4.