Alfred Levitt Explained

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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notable Immigrants G--L - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service).
  2. Web site: Alfred. March 2, 2010. Pacific Street Films. Open WorldCat.
  3. Web site: FILMOGRAPHY.
  4. Web site: Moyer . Laura . 2017-04-28 . Margaret Sutton, Life and Art . 2024-02-21 . Mary Washington Magazine Spring 2017 . en-US.
  5. Web site: Works by Alfred Levitt at The Met . 2022-05-04 . www.metmuseum.org.
  6. Web site: Alfred Levitt - Artist. MacDowell.
  7. Web site: Alfred Levitt papers, 1920-1984 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. www.aaa.si.edu.