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David Levine - USA
David Levine, (born Dec. 20, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y.— died Dec. 29, 2009, New York, N.Y.), American caricaturist and artist who for nearly 45 years (1963–2007) produced poignant pen and ink drawings for the New York Review of Books (NYRB) that served as commentaries on politicians, writers, celebrities, intellectuals, and sports figures. The distinctive heads of his caricatures were usually massive and the facial expressions dour, but Levine also created figures with large bodies and small heads (Orson Welles, 1972) .
Levine studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School; the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Temple University, Philadelphia, as well as Temple’s Tyler School of Art; and the Eighth Street School of New York. Prior to working for NYRB, he created drawings for Esquire (about 1,000), Time (some 100, including a notable 1967 Man of the Year cover featuring Pres.
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) as a raging King Lear, and dozens of others for such magazines as The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and the newspapers the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Levine’s favorite subject, Pres. Richard M. Nixon, was featured in 66 of his works. Nixon was depicted as a wolf in sheep’s clothing (1970), his dog Checkers (1971), a fetus (1971), himself hanging from the last helicopter leaving Saigon (1971), the Godfather (1972), Boss Tweed (1973), and Captain Queen (1974).
Another LBJ portrait showed the president revealing his gallbladder operation scar, which Levine depicted as the map of Vietnam.
Unlike his caricatures, Levine’s paintings had a sublime quality.
His work was in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
David Levine, (born Dec. 20, 1926, Brooklyn, N.Y.— died Dec. 29, 2009, New York, N.Y.), American caricaturist and artist who for nearly 45 years (1963–2007) produced poignant pen and ink drawings for the New York Review of Books (NYRB) that served as commentaries on politicians, writers, celebrities, intellectuals, and sports figures. The distinctive heads of his caricatures were usually massive and the facial expressions dour, but Levine also created figures with large bodies and small heads (Orson Welles, 1972) .
Levine studied at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School; the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; Temple University, Philadelphia, as well as Temple’s Tyler School of Art; and the Eighth Street School of New York. Prior to working for NYRB, he created drawings for Esquire (about 1,000), Time (some 100, including a notable 1967 Man of the Year cover featuring Pres.
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) as a raging King Lear, and dozens of others for such magazines as The New Yorker and Rolling Stone and the newspapers the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Levine’s favorite subject, Pres. Richard M. Nixon, was featured in 66 of his works. Nixon was depicted as a wolf in sheep’s clothing (1970), his dog Checkers (1971), a fetus (1971), himself hanging from the last helicopter leaving Saigon (1971), the Godfather (1972), Boss Tweed (1973), and Captain Queen (1974).
Another LBJ portrait showed the president revealing his gallbladder operation scar, which Levine depicted as the map of Vietnam.
Unlike his caricatures, Levine’s paintings had a sublime quality.
His work was in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, and the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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