Eli Leon (1935–2018)

Eli Leon was born Robert Stanley Leon in the Bronx, New York on June 27, 1935. While still at the High School of Music and Art, he spent a summer at Black Mountain College studying with the potter Karen Karnes. Leon received a bachelor of arts degree in psychology in 1958 from Reed College and a mostra altro master's degree from the University of Chicago. He became a Reichian psychotherapist. He was also a collector and self-taught scholar of African-American quilts. In 1989, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research in the South. He organized several exhibitions of quilts from his collection at museums around the country. He died from septic shock on March 6, 2018 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno