Alfred Levitt
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Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 25, 2000), born Avraham Levitt in Starodub, Russian Empire, was a painter and an expert on prehistoric art who migrated to the United States in 1911 and was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the government of France for his studies of paleolithic cave paintings.[1]
Levitt was an anarchist[2] whose friends included radicals Emma Goldman and Jack London as well as artist Marcel Duchamp.[3] He and his wife were close friends with artist Margret Sutton, who lived with them till they died.[4]
Most of Levitt's works can be classified based on location. His scenes from Gloucester, MA, and Provance, France are the most famous of these location-related pieces. Twenty of his works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[5] He was also a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1956.[6] His papers are now in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Notable Immigrants G--L - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)".
- ^ "Alfred". Pacific Street Films. March 2, 2010 – via Open WorldCat.
- ^ "FILMOGRAPHY".
- ^ Moyer, Laura (April 28, 2017). "Margaret Sutton, Life and Art". Mary Washington Magazine | Spring 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
- ^ "Works by Alfred Levitt at The Met". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
- ^ "Alfred Levitt - Artist". MacDowell.
- ^ "Alfred Levitt papers, 1920-1984 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu.
Further reading
[edit]- Feschet, Valérie (2016). "Alfred Levitt: Le peintre et la pétanque". Ethnologie française (in French). 163 (3): 507. doi:10.3917/ethn.163.0507. ISSN 0046-2616.
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