Special Report: "June Leaf: Shooting From the Heart" | Brooklyn Rail, October 29, 2025

by Joe Fyfe

When I first moved to New York after art school in 1977 I was often asked who my favorite artists were. I said, “June Leaf and Lee Lozano.” I often heard “Lee Lozano is living on the street” in response. The collectors Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick in Philadelphia had a lot of her drawings. They told me they tried to support her. I was going to buy one from them made with crayons and pencil of a boiler and some pipes and some lettering that spelled out, “I got fucked in the G<ass by Con ed!” for four hundred dollars but then I needed the money to move and never got it.

I don’t remember any comments on June Leaf.

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