David Levine (1926- )

Born in Brooklyn in 1926, David Levine studied painting at Pratt Institute, at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and with Hans Hofmann. His work has been exhibited extensively in major galleries and museums throughout the world, and several collections of his paintings and drawings have been published. John Updike (one of the artist's frequent subjects) paid tribute to Levine more than 30 years ago, and his words still hold true today:

"Besides offering us the delight of recognition, his drawings comfort us, in an exacerbated and potentially desperate age, with the sense of a watching presence, an eye informed by an intelligence that has not panicked, a comic art ready to encapsulate the latest apparitions of publicity as well as those historical devils who haunt our unease. Levine is one of America's assets. In a confusing time, he bears witness. In a shoddy time, he does good work. Here he is." ---From The New York Review of Books

Chris Cloutier was an avid student of David Levine in the late 80s thru 1992 when they joined together at Coney Island every August to do Outdoor watercolor Paintings of the Beach. Both Mr. Cloutier’s paintings and cartoons are influenced by Mr. Levine.

JAMES BALDWIN

George W. Bush 2006

BUSH 2001

JOHN UPDIKE

Jules Feiffer and David Levine