Lenore Jaffee was born in New York City in 1925-2022, and was an American artist, painter and poet. During the 1940s she attended the Art Students League of New York where she studied with Will Barnet among others. Jaffee began to exhibit her Abstract expressionist paintings during the late 1950s and 1960s in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts.[1] During the late 1950s and the early 1960s she showed her work at the Phoenix Gallery in New York. [2] The Phoenix was a prominent gallery among the 10th Street galleries in New York City and it was an avant-garde alternative to the Madison Avenue and 57th Street galleries that were both conservative and highly selective. During the 1970s Le Jaf's video work was exhibited at the Hundred Acres Gallery in New York City.[3] Among other works she has published several volumes of poetry.
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