Leone McNeil Zimmer (1916 - 2014) was a
stained glass
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...
artist who lived in
Mendocino, California.
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Biography
Leone McNeil was born in
National City, California, and grew up in
Los Angeles. She earned a bachelor of education degree as an art major at the
University of California, Los Angeles, raised a family, and then in her 40s went back to school, earning a second bachelor's degree and in 1965 a
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
degree from the
Otis College of Art and Design. In 1975, she divorced her first husband Robert McNeil and moved to Mendocino; in 1991, she married widowed Mendocino artist Warren George Zimmer, who died in 1999.
She died on April 26, 2014.
Art
McNeil's MFA project was in
fused glass, but she later moved to
leaded stained glass work as well as using
epoxy
Epoxy is the family of basic components or cured end products of epoxy resins. Epoxy resins, also known as polyepoxides, are a class of reactive prepolymers and polymers which contain epoxide groups. The epoxide functional group is also coll ...
to join the pieces of glass in her works. She also created art using
pastel
A pastel () is an art medium in a variety of forms including a stick, a square a pebble or a pan of color; though other forms are possible; they consist of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those use ...
s,
acrylic paint, and
watercolors, as well as some sculpture.
McNeil is best known for her stained glass work in churches. She has provided glass panels for the
Mendocino Presbyterian Church,
First Presbyterian Church and Trinity Lutheran Church in
Fort Bragg, California,
St. David's Episcopal Church of
Ashburn, Virginia
Ashburn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, its population was 43,511, up from 3,393 twenty years earlier. It is northwest of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washingt ...
,
and the
Hoag Memorial Hospital Chapel in
Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach is a coastal city in South Orange County, California. Newport Beach is known for swimming and sandy beaches. Newport Harbor once supported maritime industries however today, it is used mostly for recreation. Balboa Island, Newport ...
.
Chapel Windows, Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach
, artist's web site, accessed 2011-12-25.
References
External links
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UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies alumni
Otis College of Art and Design alumni
People from Mendocino, California
American stained glass artists and manufacturers
Artists from California
1916 births
2014 deaths