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- ↑ "Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art hosts two new exhibitions". TBWeekly.com. Tampa Bay Weekly. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ Bennett, Lennie (June 29, 2009). "Allen Leepa, founder of the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Modern Art in Tarpon Springs, dies at age 90". Tampa Bay Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
- 1 2 Art is a Draw; The Leepa Rattner Museum by Jamie Cataldo page 159 tampa Bay Magazine May/June 2000
- ↑ Leepa, Allen (1995). The Challenge of Modern Art (Revised ed.). Tarpon Springs, FL: Artworks Press Co. p. xv.
- ↑ Tampa Bay Magazine - May-Jun 2000 - Page 159
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