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David Levine Biography
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1936 - 1938 |
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Attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York, NY
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1941 |
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B.S. in Education from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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1951 |
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B.F.A., Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
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1955 |
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Received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
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1958 |
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Received the Isaac N. Maynard Award, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1960 |
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Received the Julius N. Hallgarten Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1962 |
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Received the Thomas B. Clarke Prize, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1966 |
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Received the George Polk Memorial Award, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
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1967 |
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Received the Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY
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1971 |
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Elected as a Member of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
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1972 |
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Received Childe Hassam Purchase Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1973 |
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Became a member of the Board of Trustees, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
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1983 |
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Elected Member, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1993 |
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Received a Gold Medal, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter, New York, NY
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1995 |
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Received the Thomas Nast Award, Landau, Germany
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2003 |
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Society of Illustrators “Illustrators Hall of Fame”
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2012
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Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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2011
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That Seventies Show, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2010
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The Century Association, New York, NY (solo)
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2009
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Summer Selections, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2007
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The Fine Art of Drawing: Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2006
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Recent American Watercolors, Peninsula Fine Arts, Newport News, VA
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2005
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Figurative Impulse, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Watercurrents: The Figure, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
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2004
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Escape, Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
Masters and Mavericks, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Watercolor, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Landscapes, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
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Modern and Contemporary Portraits curated by Townsend Wolfe, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Works on Paper, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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2002
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David Levine: The Fables of Aesop, The Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York, NY (solo)
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1999
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Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet, The New York Historical Society, New York, NY
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1998
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Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Germany
Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
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1997
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Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Twenty-Five Treasures, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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1996
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Town and Country: In Pursuit of Life’s Pleasures, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Politics, American Style: Issues and Images, Beacon Hill Fine Art, New York, NY
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1995
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Art and the Law, West Publishing Corporation, St. Paul, MN
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1993
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American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (solo)
L’Aquarelle aujourd’hui, Musee-Galerie de la Seita, Paris, France
Contemporary American Landscape, Kenny Gallery, Columbus, OH
Artists by Artists, Forum Gallery, New York, NY
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1992
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Columbus College Art Gallery, Columbus, GA (solo)
Kunsthaus Bühler, Stuttgart, Germany
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1991
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Susan Conroy Carroll Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1990
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Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
The Museums at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
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1989
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Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
The Century Club, New York, NY
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1988
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Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (solo)
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
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1987
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK (solo)
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1986
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Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1985
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Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
Die Gallery Im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
The Century Club, New York, NY
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1984
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The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA (solo)
Santa Fe East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
Maryland Institute, College of Art: Decker and Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, New York, NY
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1983
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Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Bartsch and Chariau, Munich, Germany (solo)
Museum of the Borough of Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, New York, NY
Society of Illustrators Exhibition, New York, NY
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1982
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Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1981
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Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY (solo)
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1980
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The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (solo)
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1979
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Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France (solo)
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (solo)
Maurice Pine Free Public Library, Fair Lawn, NJ (solo)
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1977
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Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (solo)
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1976
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (solo)
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1973
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Pierson College, Yale University, New Haven, CT (solo)
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1972
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Princeton Gallery of Fine Art, Princeton, NJ (solo)
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (solo)
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1971
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North Shore Community Art Center, Great Neck, NY (solo)
Lunn Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
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1970
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Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (solo)
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1969
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Graphic Arts Division, Princeton University Library, Princeton, NJ (solo)
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1968
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New York University, New York, NY (solo)
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (solo)
University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
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1963
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Forum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1954 - 1963
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Davis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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Select Public Collections:
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The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, NY
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