LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector’s Edition Cigars
All profits from this limited-edition luxury cigar collaboration will support arts education in public schools
J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is introducing the LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector’s Edition cigars at the Premium Cigar Association trade show this weekend (April 11-14, 2025) in New Orleans. This is the third year that America’s oldest family-owned premium cigar maker and the LeRoy Neiman and the Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation have collaborated to create a luxury, handcrafted cigar honoring the late, iconic, cigar-smoking American artist, LeRoy Neiman. Continuing the tradition from previous years, all profits will be donated to support arts education in public schools.
“This year’s edition features LeRoy’s painting, ‘Jazz Horns,’ a beautiful image depicting the spontaneous energy and sounds of jazz,” said Drew Newman, fourth-generation owner of J.C. Newman. “We chose this image because of the return of our annual trade show to New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.”
“Jazz was always fuel for LeRoy Neiman’s creativity,” said Tara Zabor, LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation Executive Director. “LeRoy spent many nights in clubs drawing live performances and hobnobbing with the greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. He had a passion for the improvisation unique to the genre which he mimicked in his own painting practice. Down the hall from his New York City studio, you could frequently hear jazz standards belting out of the speaker while the aromas of a freshly lit cigar wafted throughout the space. In Jazz Horns, one can sense we are in the midst of peak harmonization in the brass section or in full swing amid the musicians, where LeRoy felt right at home.”
LeRoy Neiman Collector’s Edition cigars are handcrafted at J.C. Newman’s historic El Reloj cigar factory in Tampa, Florida. The 2025 edition is a 6 1/4” x 52 Torpedo rolled with a Havana Rosado wrapper, a Florida Sun Grown binder, and a blend of aged filler tobaccos from Latin America. This year’s edition is limited to 15,000 cigars, packed in 750 cabinets of 20 cigars with a suggested retail price of $22 per cigar. J.C. Newman is shipping these cigars in the fall.
Inside each cabinet is an authentic lithograph of “Jazz Horns.” The image is also wrapped around each cigar. The bottom of each cabinet includes a surprise print of Neiman’s paint-splattered New York City studio floor. All of the packaging was printed by Vrijdag Premium Printing in Holland.
“We’ve placed this lithograph inside our cigar cabinets to welcome aficionados into LeRoy’s cherished world,” added Zabor. “Every time someone opens the cabinet, they’re getting not just a great cigar, but a piece of LeRoy’s legacy. It’s our way of honoring his life and sharing the joy that he put into every brushstroke.”
J.C. Newman and the Foundation will be donating all profits from this collaboration to support arts education in Tampa’s public schools, including those surrounding the El Reloj cigar factory.
“Every cigar from the LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collector’s Edition directly supports our ongoing mission at the Foundation,” noted Tara Zabor. “The profits help us improve arts education in local public schools, keeping LeRoy’s passion for nurturing creativity alive and thriving among the next generation of artists.”
LeRoy Neiman Collectors Edition 2024 Retailers
LeRoy Neiman 2025 Collectors Edition
6 1/4″ x 52 Torpedo
WRAPPER: Havana Rosado
BINDER: Florida Sun Grown
FILLER: Latin America
FACTORY: J.C. Newman El Reloj, Tampa, FL
LeRoy Neiman 2024 Collectors Edition
7″ x 50 Churchill
WRAPPER: Havana Rosado
BINDER: Florida Sun Grown
FILLER: Latin America
FACTORY: J.C. Newman El Reloj, Tampa, FL
LeRoy Neiman 2023 Collectors Edition
6″ x 52 Toro
WRAPPER: Havana Rosado
BINDER: Florida Sun Grown
FILLER: Latin America
FACTORY: J.C. Newman El Reloj, Tampa, FL
About J.C. Newman Cigar Co.
Founded in 1895 by Julius Caeser Newman, J.C. Newman Cigar Company is the oldest family-owned premium cigar maker in America. J.C. Newman handcrafts premium cigars at its historic El Reloj cigar factory in Tampa, Florida; at the J.C. Newman PENSA cigar factory in Estelí, Nicaragua; and with its longtime partners at Tabacalera A. Fuente in Santiago, Dominican Republic. The Fuente and Newman families founded the Cigar Family Charitable Foundation, which supports low-income families in the Dominican Republic with education, health care, vocational training, and clean water.
About the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation
The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation seeks to perpetuate the legacy and philanthropic spirit of LeRoy Neiman, and to advance and share the impact of his life, his ideals and artwork in the U.S. and throughout the world. The Foundation supports organizations that promote the study, improvement and advancement of the arts and provide opportunities for at- risk youth to develop paths to successful futures.
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