Kevin McGraw "Leedy: The Documentary" preview by Alice Thorson

His paintings are big, brash and energetic. With their brilliant colors and lunar surfaces, some call them cosmic. His ceramics — made of thrown, torn and twisted clay — broke new ground. But it’s not just his artworks that have made Jim Leedy, now 81, a towering figure in the Kansas City art world.

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