Writings/books by the artist
Lamis, Leroy. “Front Matter.” Art Education: Journal of National Art Education Association 7, no. 7, (November 1954): Cover illustration.
__________. Poems or Poetic Expressions of Sculptors. Terre Haute, IN: L. Lamis, 1982.
__________. PC Art: Information and Program Manual for the IBM Personal Computer. Terre Haute, IN: 1983.
__________. PC Artists Sketchbook. PC Art, 1987.
Artist Statements/Interviews
Lamis, Leroy interviewed by Larry Stern. “Sculpture [Sculptor] Uses Future as Source of Creation.” The Cedar Rapids Gazette. 16 October 1960, 4.
Ethel Moore, ed. The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Gallery. “Letters from 31 Artists to the Albright-Knox Gallery.” Gallery Notes VXXI, no. 2 and XXXII, no. 2, (Spring, 1970): 19.
Selected Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures
Atkinson, Tracy, introduction. The Collection of Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley, exh. cat. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Center, 1968.
______________________ . A Plastic Presence, exh. cat. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukeen Art Center, 1969.
Bruno, Phillip, introduction. Adventure with Art: The Helen Mary Harding Collection, exh. cat. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Museum of Art, 1972.
Cornell College. Contemporary Arts Symposium. exh. cat. Mount Vernon, IA: Cornell College, 1958.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. Issue 14, Urbana-Champaigne, IL: University of Illinois, 1965, 1969.
Dyer, Carlus, introduction. Tenth Anniversary: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,1964-1974, exh. cat. Ridgefield, CT: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974.
Eichholtz, David and Peter Frank. Post-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After, exh. cat., Santa Fe, NM, 2015. (online exhibition catalogue: http://issuu.com/davidrichardgallery/docs/postop_catalog_v3/1)
Flint Institute of Arts. Made of Plastic, exh. cat. Flint, MI: Flint Institute of Arts, 1968.
Heartney, Eleanor. “Toward an Expanded Regionalism.” Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition, exh. cat. Des Moines, IA: Iowa Arts Council, 1986.
Indiana University. Paintings and Sculptures by Midwest Faculty-Artists, exh. cat. Urbana-Champaign, IL: KrannertArt Museum, University of Illinois and Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1976.
The James Howe Gallery. American Abstract Artsits: 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio, 1987. exh. cat. Union, NJ: Kean College of New Jersey, 1987.
Kinsman, Robert D. “Leroy Lamis: Romantic Classicist” in Leroy Lamis, exh. cat. Terre Haute, IN: The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, 1979.
_______________. “New Sculpture by Leroy Lamis: from Constructivism to Symbolism and Back.” New Sculpture by Leroy Lamis. Terre Haute: IN: The Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, 1982.
Kish, Anne L. “Eye Games or ‘Any Eyes for Tennis?’” Festival 1: The Great Society: A Sampling of Its Imagery, exh. cat. Haverford, PA: The Arts Forum, 1965.
The Larry Aldrich Museum. Highlights of the 1965-66 Art Season, exh. cat. Ridgefield, CT: The Larry Aldrich Museum, 1966.
Martha Jackson Gallery. Vibrations Eleven. exh. cat. New York: Martha Jackson Gallery, 1965.
Mattison, Robert S., introduction. After Image: Op Art of the 1960s, exh. brochure. New York: JacobsonHoward Gallery, 2007.
The Nebraska Art Association. American Sculpture, exh. cat. Lincoln, NE: The Nebraska Art Association, 1970.
Rickey, George, introduction. Constructive Tendencies: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George Rickey, exh. cat. Santa Barbara,CA: The Regents, University of California, 1970.
____________, preface to Constructivism (1967) reprinted in Aspects of Constructivism, exh. brochure. Schenectady, NY: The Atrium Gallery, 1985.
Seitz, William, introduction. The Responsive Eye, exh. cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1965.
Shipley, James R. and Allen S. Weller, introduction. Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, exh. cat. Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1969.
Staempfli, George W., introduction. Leroy Lamis, exh. cat. Berne, Switzerland: Stämpfli & Cie, 1966.
___________________________. Leroy Lamis, exh. cat. Fort Wayne, IN: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 1968.
___________________________. Leroy Lamis, exh. cat. Bern, Switzerland: Stämpfli + Cie AG Bern, 1969.
___________________________. Leroy Lamis. exh. brochure. Bern, Switzerland: Staempfli & Cie, 1973.
Constructivist Tendencies: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. George Rickey, exh. cat. Santa Barbara, CA: University of California, 1970.
Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth. Leroy Lamis, exh. cat. Hanover, New Hampshire, 1970.
Verre, Philip. “Some Observations on the American Abstract Artists at the Half-Century Mark.”
_________ et al. American Abstract Artists: 50th Anniversary Celebration, exh. cat. Bronx and Long Island, NY: The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 1986.
Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Review 1963-1964. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964.
___________________________. Annual Exhibition 1964: Contemporary American Sculpture, exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1964.
___________________________. Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966.
___________________________.1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, exh. cat. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1968.
___________________________. Illuminations & Reflections, exh. brochure. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974.
Wooden, Howard E., introduction. Recent Works by Three Indiana University Artists, exh. brochure. Terre Haute, IN: Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, 1966.
________________. Fifty Paintings and Sculptures: from the Collection of the Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, exh. cat. Terre Haute, IN: Sheldon Swope Art Gallery, 1972.
Wysocki, Matthew, introduction. Leroy Lamis: Sculpture. exh. cat. Hanover, NH: Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, 1970.
Zimmerman, Sandra R. “Plastic as Plastic.” Plastic as Plastic, exh. cat. New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1969.
Articles and reviews about the artist
“Art of Illusion” MD Magazine. July 1965.
Art listings. Time Magazine. 6 June 1969, 2.
“Artists’ Efforts Culminate with Annual Awards.” The Star, Terre Haute, Ind., 14 March 1983, 8.
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Annual Report 1967-1968. Gallery Notes 32, no.1 (October 1968).
“Clearly Contemporary.” Playboy Magazine (August 1968).
“Cornell’s Metal Sculptor-Instructor Works with Architectural ‘I’ Beams.” Cedar Rapids Gazette, 2 November 1957.
“Culver Sculptor Wins Acclaim: Leroy Lamis Creates in New Medium.” Star News, Culver City, Calif., 16, December 1950, 2.
Digital Salon. “Gallery Artworks.” Leonardo 30, no. 5 (1997): 423.
__________. “Gallery Artworks.” Leonardo 32, no. 5 (1999): 415-436.
“Esther Sackler Wed.” The New York Times, 14 August 1954, 9.
“New Talent USA.” Art in America 54, No. 4 (July-August 1966): 40.
Advertisement for Staempfli Group show in Art in America 53, no. 6 (December 1965-January 1966): 14.
Art International X, no. 3 (March 1966): inside cover.
“Exhibition at Staempfli Gallery.” Art News 65 (Summer 1966): 12.
“Indiana ‘Thing’ in Art Exhibit” The Indianapolis Star, 29 January 1963.
“ISU Art Professor Exhibits Work in W. Virginia Show.” [no source]
“Leroy Lamis.” The Star, Terre Haute, Ind, 20 January 1982.
“Prof. Leroy Lamis Earns Wide Distinction in Art World with Plastic Sculptures.” The Grove of Indiana State University 1, no. 8 (May 1970).
“Profile.” Cornell College Alumnus 14, no. 4 (January 1961): 10.
“Review of Vibrations Eleven at Martha Jackson Gallery.” Art News 63 (February 1965):16.
“Review of Vibrations Eleven at Martha Jackson Gallery.” Art International 9 (March 1965): 50-51.
“Swope Gallery’s Wabash Valley Show Attracts Many New York Entrants and Visitors.” [no source].
“The New Works at Speed Museum.” The Courier-Journal and Times Magazine (4 February 1968): cover, 19.
Adams, Alice. “The New Heart of Plastics,” Craft Horizons 28 (November 1968): 36 and 56.
Ashbrook, William S., Jr. “The Sculpture of Leroy Lamis.” Faculty Profile 1, no. 2, May 1965.
Canaday, John. “Art: Capturing the Optical Movement.” The New York Times, 25 February 1965, 25.
____________. “The Responsive Eye: Three Cheers and High Hopes.”The New York Times, 28 February 1965.
____________. “Art: Young Unknowns at Guggenheim.” The New York Times, 31 May 1969, 19.
____________. “Art: Okada’s Work is Pleasure to See.” The New York Times, 24 March 1973.
Crittenden, Susan. “Leroy Lamis Uses Keyboard, Screen to Paint Works of Art.” The Indianapolis Star, 1 August 1984, 12.
Driscoll, Edgar J. Jr. “The Art World Op (for Optical) Art takes Over ‘Pop’.”Boston, Mass. [n.d.]
Morning Globe. March 28, 1965. Illustrated. Department of Circulating Exhibition Records, Scrapbooks Nos. 128-129, Microfilm Reel No. 34, fr. 116-117. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Forbes, John B. “Business Flexes Plastic Art.” The New York Times, 23 November 1969, F14.
Genauer, Emily. “Modern Museum—an Eyeful of Op Art.” New York Herald Tribune, 25 February 1965.
____________. “The Latest Madness at Whitney Museum.” World Journal Tribune, 15 December 1966.
Halladay, John. “New Wave: Computer Art.” [ ] Tribune-Star [no date-c. 1980s]
Hopper, Hedda. “There’s quite a story behind Leroy Lamis…” The Miami Daily News, 7 December 1950, 10A.
Hughes, FrancesE. “ISU Professor Brings Unique Form to Plastic.”Terre Haute Star (4 February 1969).
Jensen, Eileen. “Swope to Exhibit New Sculpture.” The Tribune-Star, 7 August 1977, 28.
K, K. “Leroy Lamis” Art News 68, no. 5 (Summer 1969): 18.
Kinsman, Robert D. “Art from Swope.” The Tribune-Star, 24 January 1982.
Lamis, Esther. “Recycling Cybercarcasses.” [editorial] The New York Times, 19 March 1998, G10.
Nusbaum, Eliot. “Broad ‘Iowa’ Spectrum.” Des Moines Register, 26 October 1986.
Preston, Stuart. “Art: The Whitney’s New Acquisitions.” The New York Times, 29 May 1965, C24.
Quick, Edward R. “Sculpture Realizes Unionbetween Art and Machine.” The Star Tribune.” [c. 1972].
Russell, John. “Living with Art: Art Everywhere You Look.” House & Garden 136, no. 5 (November 1969), 84-101.
Schecter, Ann. “New DeCordova exhibit a claustrophobic experience.” Sun, 11 February 1973.
Sverbeyeff, Elizabeth. “The Marvelous Sorcery of the Invisible.” House Beautiful 109, no. 7 (July 1967), 92-93.
Tillim, Sidney. “Optical Art: Pending or Ending?” Arts Magazine 39, no. 4 (January, 1965): 16-23.
W, C.N. “Leroy Lamis.” Art News 65, no. 4 (Summer 1966): 12.
Willis, Thomas. “Bringing the Art of Plastics.” Chicago Tribune, 8 February 1970.
Zimmer, William. “American Abstract Artists Looks Back at 50-Year History.” The New York Times, 30 March 1966,16.
_____________. “Tracing the Impact of the Geometric.” The New York Times, 19 February 1989, 17 and 19.
General books and secondary sources
Albright-Knox Art Gallery. American Art in Upstate New York: Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures. New York: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1974.
American Federation of Arts. American Art Directory 44, New York: R.R. Bowker, 1970.
Baldwin, Billy. Billy Baldwin Decorates. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972, 1973.
Battcock, Gregory, ed. Minimal Art: Critical Anthology. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: E.P. Dutton, Co., Inc., 1968, 1995.
Benezit, Emmanuel. Dictionary of Artists. Paris: Gründ, 2006.
Bowker, R. R. Who’s Who in American Art. New York: R.R. Bowker Publishing, 1986, 1991,1993.
__________. World Museum Publications: A Directory of Art and Cultural Museums, Their Publications and Audio Visual Materials. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1982, 375, 452, 610.
Bunch, Clarence. Acrylic for Sculpture and Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972.
Celant, Germano. Enrico Castellani: 1958-1970. Italy: Fondazione Prada, 2001.
Cincinnati Art Museum. Annual Report. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1988.
Craven, Wayne. Sculpture in America. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1984.
Cummings, Paul. Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, 5th ed.New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
Davenport, Ray. Davenport’s Art Reference: The Gold Edition. 2005.
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson, ed. The Artists Bluebook. Scottsdale, AZ: Askart.com, 2005.
Eiseman, Constance. “New York State Award.”New York State Council on the Arts Annual Report, 1970-71. New York, NY: New York State Council on the Arts, 1971.
Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975. Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1999.
Hopkins: Webster’s Quotations, Fact and Phrases. San Diego,CA: ICON Group International, Inc., 2008.
Index of American Sculpture. Newark, DE: University of Delaware, 1985.
Karpel, Bernard and Ruth Spiegel. Arts in America: A Bibliography 1. Washington, D.C.: Published for the Archives of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979.
Lewis, Adam and Albert Hadley. Billy Baldwin: The Great American Decorator. New York: Rizzoli, 2010.
Marquis, Christopher. Marquis’s Who’s Who in American Art, 2007-2008. New Providence, NJ. Marquis’s Who’s Who [etc.] 2006.
McGowan, Alison C. et al. Who’s Who in American Art, 2004. 25th ed. New Providence, NJ: Marquis’s Who’s Who, 2004.
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
Mogelon, Alex and Norman Laliberte. Art in Boxes. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1974.
Newark Museum. American Art in the Newark Museum: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Newark Museum, 1981.
Opitz, Glenn B., ed. Mantle Fielding’s Dictionary of American painters, sculptors & engravers. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, c1983.
______________. Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present. Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1984.
Passoni, Franco and Rodney Stringer trans. Art and Plastic. Milan: Industria pubblicatzioni audio-visivi, 1975.
Pool, Mary Jane and Caroline Seebohm. 20th Century Decorating, Architecture and Gardens. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
Rickey, George. Constructivism Origins and Evolution. New York: Braziller, 1967.
Robbins, Daniel and David W. Scott. The Neuberger Collection: An American Collection: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1968.
Sculpture: Webster’s Quotations, Facts and Phrases. San Diego, CA: ICON Group International, Inc., 2008.
Schwartz, Therese. Plastic Sculpture and Collage: Designs, Materials, and Methods. New York: Hearthside Press, Inc.
Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums: An Introduction to Looking. New York: Harper and Row, 1975.
Stangos, Nikos. Concepts of Modern Art. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
Who’s Who in American Art. Jacques Cattell Press, 1986.
General Articles
Lippold, Richard. “Sculpture?” Magazine of Art. (December 1951), 315-319.
Robbins, Tom. “‘Op Goes the Easel.” Seattle Magazine. (July 1965). Department of Circulating Exhibition Records, Scrapbooks Nos. 128-129, Microfilm Reel No. 34, fr. 369-373. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Other Archives/Papers
BrooklynMuseum. Records of the Curatorial Department: Contemporary Art: active files. Leroy Lamis.
Curatorial Exhibition files, Exh. #757. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Department of Circulating Exhibition Records, Scrapbooks Nos. 128-129, Microfilm Reel No. 34. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden collection printout, 2008.
Howard W. and Jean Lipman papers, 1848, 1916-2000. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2.2: Sculpture Collection Purchases, 1954-1989, undated, box 6. Lamis, Leroy, 1963-1975, undated.
Oral history interview with Larry Aldrich, 1972 Apr. 25-June 10, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Websites/Blogs
Minus Space. www.minusspace.com/tag/whitney-museum/
Serving History. www.servinghistory.com/topics/Polymethyl_methacrylate::sub::Uses