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21 June 2012| last updated at 11:06AM

Sports artist LeRoy Neiman dead at 91



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NEW YORK: LeRoy Neiman, a famed artist whose sports portraits included drawings of such stars as Muhammad Ali and Babe Ruth, died on Wednesday at age 91 at a New York hospital.

Neiman served as the official painter for five Olympics and conveyed the  drama of the sports world as well as such notable figures as Frank Sinatra.

He captured such diverse events as the Super Bowl, France’s Cannes Film  Festival, Grand Prix auto racing in Monaco and England’s Ascot and Grand  National Steeplechase races.

But among is most iconic artworks were those of Ali over 15 year’s of the  legendary fighter’s career. His paintings and sketchworks are on display in a  gallery that bears his name at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Neiman was survived by his wife, Janet Byrne Neiman.

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