Books
Schulze, Franz. Fantastic Images: Chicago Art Since 1945. Chicago: Follet Publishing Company, 1972, pp. 90-93.
Leaf, June. People. Andover, Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, 1994. 62 pp.
Leaf, June. Record 1974/1975. Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. 194 pp.
Exhibition Catalogues
June Leaf: A Retrospective Exhibition. Foreword by Judith Russi Kirshner. Essay by Dennis Adrian. Chicago: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1978.
June Leaf. Essay by Barry Gabriel. Sydney, Nova Scotia: University College of Cape Breton, 1982.
June Leaf: A Survey of Painting, Sculpture, and Works on Paper, 1948-1991. Essays by Philip Brookman and Debra Singer, and Lucy R. Lippard. Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1991. 48 pp.
June Leaf, Prints 1952-1990. Texts by Rolf Achille and Dennis Adrian. Chicago: City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs, 1995. 22 pp.
Youngs, Christopher, June Leaf: Mining Mabou. [Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania]: Freedman Gallery, 1997.
Halkes, Peter, June Leaf: Cape Breton Modern. Halifax: Mt. Saint Vincent Art Gallery, 2001.
June Leaf. Forward by Guido Magnaguagno. Texts by Robert Enright and Andres Pardey. Basel: Museum Tinguely/Benteli Publishers, Bern, 2004. 166 pp.
June Leaf: Thought is Infinite. With an essay by Carter E. Foster and a text by Clara Rojas-Sebesta. Photographs by Alice Attie. Göttingen: Steidl/Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2016. 280 pp.
Adams, Sam; Kemmerer, Allison; Wilkins, Gordon, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart. Texts by Joan Jonas and Kara Walker. Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of American Art/New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2025. 208 pp.
Periodicals
Schulze, Franz. “June Leaf's Debut is Late But Worth the Waiting For.” Chicago Daily News (January 8, 1966), p. 10.
Kind, J. “June Leaf Returns.” Art News (February 1966), p. 46.
Kramer, Hilton, "Art: Robust Expressionism with Wit - June Leaf's Paintings at the Frumkin," The New York Times (December 14, 1968), p. 35.
Glueck, Grace, “42nd Street Dreams.” The New York Times (December 22, 1968), p. 32.
Art News (January 1969), p. 22.
“Carnival of Grotesques.” Time January 10, 1969), p. 44.
Arts (February 1969), p. 66.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “June Leaf.” Artforum (February 1969), p. 67.
Mellow, J.R. Art International (February 1969), p. 45.
Schulze, Franz. “The World Beneath the Top Layer.” Chicago Daily News (October 17, 1970), p. 11.
Haydon, Harold. “One Painter Others Can Learn From.”
Chicago Sun Times, (October 23, 1970), n.p.
Glauber, Robert. Distant Gods, Poisoned Love, and Fascinating Females.
Skyline [Chicago] (November 4, 1970), p. 5.
Allen, Jane and Derek Guthrie. “Improving the Image of the Chicago Imagists.” Chicago Tribune (May 14, 1972), sec. 11, p. 3.
Kozloff, Max. “Inwardness: Chicago Art Since 1945.” Artforum (October 1972), p. 51-55.
Canaday, John, "Let's Not Try to Explain June Leaf," The New York Times (November 18, 1973), sec. D, p. 167.
Arts (January 1974), p. 68.
J.R. “Madison: A New (June) Leaf and an Old.” Madison News (February 1974), n.p.
Naumann, F. “June Leaf.” Artforum (February 1974), pp. 76-78.
Lehmann, Henry. “Drawing Now.” The Star [Montreal] (November 13, 1976), n.p.
Tannenbaum, Judith. “June Leaf at Terry Dintenfass.” Arts (December 1976), p. 36-37.
Rubinfein, Leo. “June Leaf at Terry Dintenfass Gallery.” Artforum (December 1976), pp. 63-64.
Schulze, Franz. “Leaf and Kahlo: A Brilliant Museum Show.” Chicago Daily News (January 14-15, 1978), p. 14.
Haydon, Harold. “Painting the Human Condition: From the Most Tragic to a Bit of Comedy.” Chicago Sun Times (January 15, 1978), p. 2.
Artner, Alan. “In Retrospect, MCA Errs.” Chicago Tribune (January 22, 1978), sec. 4, p. 4.
Lippard, Lucy. “June Leaf: Life Out of Life.” Art In America (March/April, 1978), pp. 112-116.
Price, Terry. “June Leaf: Storyteller of Life.” Roosevelt University Magazine [Chicago], (Spring 1978), p. 18.
Rabiger, Michael. “Frida Kahlo and June Leaf.” New Art Examiner (March 1978), p. 5.
ArtsCanada, (December 1978), p. 58.
Artner, Alan. “Chicago's Loss Is Capital's Gain.” Chicago Tribune (May 20, 1979), sec. 6, pp. 6-7.
Artforum (January 1981), p. 82.
Art in America (January 1981), p. 46.
Elliott, David. “The Brains Behind this Head? Artist June Leaf.” Chicago Sun Times (January 18, 1981), p. 23.
Artner, Alan. “Darkness Marks Vail's Photos.” Chicago Tribune (February 6, 1981), sec. 2, p. 12.
Kirshner, Judith R. “June Leaf.” Artforum (Summer 1981), p. 99.
Upshaw, Reagan. “June Leaf at Young Hoffman.” Art In America (Summer 1981), pp. 136-137.
"June Leaf.” Maclean’s (March 22, 1982), p. 46.
Butt, Robyn. “June Leaf at Dal Gallery has Heady Impact.” The Halifax Chronicle 1982.
Elliott, David. “Chicago is Enjoying Its Own Electicism.” Art News (May 1982), p. 92.
Schulze, Franz. “Made in Chicago: A Revisionary View.” Art in America (March 1983), pp. 122-128.
Russell, John. “Gregory Crane, R.L. Kaplan, and June Leaf.” The New York Times (May 24, 1985), n.p.
Art in America (August 1985), p. 159.
Schwabsky, Barry. “R.L. Kaplan/Gregory Crane/June Leaf.” Arts (September 1985), p. 37.
Schulze, Franz. “The Expressionist Strain.” Art Journal (Winter 1985), pp. 307-308.
Selz, Peter. “Surrealism and the Chicago Imagists of the 1950s: A Comparison and Contrast.” Art Journal (Winter 1985), pp. 303-306.
Artforum (March 1986), p. 67.
Yau, John. “June Leaf: Edward Thorp Gallery.” Artforum (September 1988), pp. 137-138.
Berlind, Robert. “June Leaf at Edward Thorp.” Art in America (October 1988), pp. 195-196.
Garvey, Susan Gibson. “Head and Heart: A Celebration of June Leaf.”
Arts Atlantic (Spring/Summer 1989), pp. 40-44.
Grimes, Nancy, "Face Off.” Artnews (March 1990), p. 188.
Richard, Paul, "June Leaf's Epiphanies and Other Delights.” Washington Post (April 14, 1991), p. G1.
Yau, John, "Original Desire”, Arts Magazine (November 1991), pp. 40-45.
Stapen, Nancy, "June Leaf's Emphatically Female Figure Imagery," The Boston Globe (December 5, 1991).
"Let Us Now Praise Artist's Artists.” Art & Auction (April 1993), pp. 78-79.
Isenberg, Michael, Cover (May 1995), p. 51.
Schwabsky, Barry, Artforum (Summer 1995), p. 108.
Naves, Mario, New Art Examiner (September 1995), p. 46.
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times (April 7, 1995), p. C20.
Bell, Bowyer, Review (May 1, 1997).
Wilkinson, Jeanne, Review, (May 1, 1997).
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times (April 25, 1997), p. C23.
Fox, Marilyn J., "A Master of Gesture”, Reading Eagle (November 9, 1997), p. E3.
Heartney, Eleanor, Review, Art in America (January 1998), p. 98.
Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh. “ This to This, This to This: The Interconnected World of June Leaf.” Border Crossings, issue no. 67 (July 1998), pp. 12-26.
"Seasoned Paintings from a Sculptor.” New York Observer (December 18, 2000).
Heath, Terrence, Review, Border Crossings (May 2002), p. 68.
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review," The New York Times (March 26, 2004).
Brennan, Michael, “Art Seen: June Leaf.” The Brooklyn Rail (April 2004).
Yablonsky, Linda, Review, Time Out New York (March 25 - April 1, 2004), p. 58.
Kuspit, Donald, “Reviews: June Leaf: Edward Thorp Gallery.” Artforum (Summer 2004), pp. 249-250.
Nancy Princenthal, Review, Art in America (September 2004), p. 126.
Hans-Joachim Mulli, Review, Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung (October 2004).
Review, The New Yorker (March 5, 2007).
Julian Kreimer, Review. Art in America (November 2007).
John Yau, “June Leaf: Paintings and Sculpture.” The Brooklyn Rail (April 2008).
Linda Spalding, “June Leaf.” Brick, no. 85 (Summer 2010), pp. 63-65.
Baker, Elizabeth C., “June Leaf.” Art in America November 16, 2010, online.
David Baird, “June Leaf.” Border Crossings, Issue No. 121 (2012) pp. 78-79.
Mario Naves, City Arts (January 2012).
John Yau, “Can We Do Something About This?” Hyperallergic (January 28, 2012).
Robert Enright and Meeka Walsh.”Drawing the Dance of the Unfinished Story,” Border Crossings, vol. 33, no. 2 (June-August 2014), pp. 42-57.
Feitelberg, Rosemary. “June Leaf Discusses Art, Whitney Show and Living With Photographer Robert Frank.” WWD - Women’s Wear Daily (June 17, 2016), online.
Samet, Jennifer. “Beer with a Painter: June Leaf.” Hyperallergic (April 23, 2016), online.
Brassil, Gillian. “The Visual Artist Who Thinks of Herself as a Dancer or an Aviator.” The New York Times Style Magazine (November 1, 2022), online.
Cronin, Ray. “June Leaf in Mabou Since 1969.” Border Crossings (March 2023), online.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. “June Leaf Tackles Her Subjects Hands On.” Pin-Up, issue 34 (Spring/Summer 2023), n.p.
Grimes, William. “June Leaf, Artist Who Explored the Female Form, Dies at 94.” The New York Times (July 1, 2024). n.p. and online.
Smith, Harrison. “June Leaf, Spirited Artist with a Fantastical Touch, Dies at 94.” Washington Post (July 3, 2024), online.
“June Leaf (1929-2024).” Artforum (July 4, 2024), online.
Gallun, Lucy. “Belonging on Earth: June Leaf in Memoriam.” Museum of Modern Art Magazine (July 11, 2024), online.