Leslie-Lohman Gallery | LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Established in 2006 the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by the Board of Directors. The original design of the award was commissioned by Charles Leslie and Fritz Lohman. It was executed by Douglas Holtquist. It is custom cast in clear polished Marplex by Ranieri Sculpture Casting of Long Island City, NY, and engraved by Academy Engraving in NYC. It is unique in that each award is cast from the original mould.

The award is engraved with the following words: The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation [year] Lifetime Achievement Award to [artists name] for his/her Incalculable Contribution to Gay Art.

It is an occasional award given upon the following principles:

One must be at least 60 years of age.
One must have a bona fide history of creating art pertinent to the LGBT experience.
It is awarded by the Foundation only when it becomes obvious there is a deserving candidate, therefore it may not be awarded every year.
It is usually awarded to artists who have had a significant history with Leslie/Lohman but exceptions may be made.

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To date the following three artists have been honored…


The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award Original sculpture by Douglas Holtquist
_________________________________ 2006
Peter Flinsch (1920 - 2010)	Photo
Peter Flinsch was just 17 when Hitler began World War II. On the strength of his educational background he was assigned to the Luftwaffe (air force) officer training program. Early in his training he was tried by a military tribunal in Berlin for "Attempt of contravention against Paragraf 174a (attempt to commit a homosexual act). He was sentenced to loss of rank, imprisonment, and finally to a punishment battalion, minefield sweeping. Men in such punishment units, which always included homosexuals, were not expected to live. Flinsch survived. He eventually emigrated to Canada where he lived in Montreal. His work has been seen in galleries and publications in Canada, the U.S., and Europe including the famous German satirical magazine, Simplizissimus. Click here to read more about Peter Flinsch. ________________________________________
2007
Delmas Howe (b. 1938)	Photo
Delmas Howe was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in Truth or Consequences New Mexico. After graduating from high school he progressed through undergraduate work at Wichita State University, then 4 years in the U.S. Air Force, a move to the East Coast, graduate work at Yale and several years of classes at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students' League while working as a professional musician. After a return to the West and a successful design and art studio in Amarillo, Texas, he re-established himself in an old adobe post-office in Truth or Consequences where he lives and works. Howe's work has appeared in many anthologies of painting and a documentary on his life and work was released in 2006, The Truth or Consequences of Delmas Howe. Click here to read more about Delmas Howe. Click here to view the work of Delmas Howe. _____________________________________
2010
The. (Ted) Titolo (b. 1928)	Photo
"I am not pure anything," says Ted Titolo, who at age 73 has under his belt more than a half-century of drawing, painting, photography, and collage, with some sculpture and video tossed in for measure. Variably droll, haunting, and mordant, Titolo's creations are stylistically diverse - his works over the years seem like they could be those not just of different artists, but different eras and cultures. In the Titoloean oeuvre, realist portrayals that could be declarative sentences stand side-by-side works abstract and encrypted enough to be utterances of Herr Rorschach or the Delphic oracle. Titolo has generously given to the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation all of his life's works. Click here to view the work of The. (Ted) Titolo. ________________