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David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) [1] was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th Century".
Jack Levine was the eighth child born to Samuel and Mary Levine, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. [2] He grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work.
Erik Levine is an American visual artist.He is a Professor of Art in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Massachusetts Boston. [1]Levine is most known for his videos, sculptures, and drawings, with his works featured in the public collections of museums, such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Levine's work is sculpture infused with humor. A 1994 LA Times review of his art notes, "His "Half Knot Painting" is the sleeper of the show, a witty, punning mosaic of wood scraps, half with knots and half without. Understated and crudely coated with resin, it rips through the posturing of the work surrounding it to make a fresh and clever ...
Additional examples of Levine's works include photographs of Van Gogh paintings from a book of his work; watercolor paintings based directly on work by Fernand Léger; pieces of plywood with their knotholes painted bright solid colors; and her 1991 sculpture Fountain, a bronze urinal modeled after Marcel Duchamp's 1917 work, Fountain.
Levine grew up Manhattan's Chinatown. [5] When she was fourteen, she went to a Diane Arbus exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art and developed an interest in photography. She borrowed her father's camera and signed up for after-school darkroom classes at the Henry Street Settlement and initially shot documentary-style street photographs in her neighborhood.
Martin Levine (born 14 May 1945 in New York City) [1] is an American artist.. Levine works mainly in etching and lithography, depicting realistically rendered cityscapes.His work has been included extensively in both international and American invitational and juried exhibitions, and his prints and drawings are in many important collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine ...
Marion Lerner-Levine was born in Hackney, London, England on October 31, 1931, [3] as the daughter of a Polish mother and a Romanian father, LSE economist Abba Lerner. [2] [4] When she was six years old, the family emigrated to the United States because her father was offered a Rockefeller Foundation grant to study economics.