ArtistsLeonard Freed
Leonard Freed

Leonard Freed

1929–2006
WA-00021538
Brooklyn, NY, USA
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None documented
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16
Works in Collection
41
Assets Indexed
2
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60%
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Authority Records (2)

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1 cross-verified · 1 single-source
  • Birth yearArtsy· 85%
  • NationalityArtsy· 85%

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Artworks (16)

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Artwork sources (3)

16 published of 39 catalogued · 27 with image
  • MoMA
    9 publishedof 18 catalogued13 img
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    7 published
  • + 1 more source · 14 catalogued, not yet published

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7 entries · 1 sources
  • Children in Window, Harlem, NY
    1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
  • Football player hugging his mother, Brooklyn, NY
    1963 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • All night prayer and gospel meeting in the "Moving Star Hall," Johns Island, South Carolina
    1965 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • A policewoman plays games with community children. Shortly afterward, the officer became pregnant and was assigned a desk job for the period of her pregnancy, from Police Work
    1978 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Selma
    1965 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • In poor cotton picker's cabin, far from the towns and cities where the civil rights agitation is taking place, a new force has entered the lives of the isolated Negro youths. Television, with its instant communication, direct to the living rooms of the poorest, has created a revolution the likes of which the world has not seen before. Television confronts today's Negro youth with a way of life completely at odds with his own experience. The richness advertised makes him acutely aware of the gulf separating his physical and moral condition from that of the whites, North Carolina
    1964 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • The Reverend Martin Luther King being greeted on his return to the US after being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Baltimore, October 31, 1964
    1964 · Cleveland · 1 prov
    Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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