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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Gina at Work by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Gina at Work, 2002

    Ink on paper

    11 x 8.5 in (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

  2. Dark Moon by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    Dark Moon, 1989

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    9.5 x 7.75 in (24.13 x 19.69 cm)

  3. Last Day of Summer by Charles Basham, Image 1.

    Charles Basham

    Last Day of Summer, 1986

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22 in (38.1 x 55.88 cm)

  4. Shrimp Fleet VI by Carl Schwartz, Image 1.

    Carl Schwartz

    Shrimp Fleet VI, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22.25 in (38.1 x 56.52 cm)

  5. Alex Katz by Theo Wujcik, Image 1.

    Theo Wujcik

    Alex Katz, 1979

    Etching on paper

    23.5 x 32.5 in (59.69 x 82.55 cm)

  6. Melancholia II by Robert Ecker, Image 2.

    Robert Ecker

    Melancholia II, 1978

    Mezzotint on paper

    10 x 8 in (25.4 x 20.32 cm)

  7. Horse Pasture, Fisher Ferry Road, Warren County, Mississippi, 1976 by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Horse Pasture, Fisher Ferry Road, Warren County, Mississippi, 1976, 1976

    Chromogenic print

    16.25 x 24 in (41.28 x 60.96 cm)

  8. Gary Trudeaau by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Gary Trudeaau, 1974

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

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About the artist

David Levine

American

1926-2009

David Levine was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. Levine began drawing at a young age and when he was nine he received an invitation to audition for an animator's position in Disney's Los Angeles Studios. Levine later studied painting at the Pratt Institute. Immediately after WWII Levine served in the US army and after his service he graduated from Temple Universities Tyler School of Arts. Levine initially hoped to be a full-time painter, but was often forced to subsist on illustration work from publications like Gasoline Retailer. Nevertheless, he turned out a body of paintings, although many of these were destroyed in a fire in 1968. Levine's paintings are mostly watercolors that often depict garment workers, honoring his father's employees at his clotheing factory, and bathers at Coney Island. Levine, together with Aaron Shikler founded the Painting Group in 1958, a salon of artists with whom he gathered for fifty years to paint models. The group was the subject of a 2007 documentary called Portraits of a Lady, which followed their creation of simultaneous portraits of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. In the 1960's Levine worked as a political illustrator where his work appeared in the Review, Esquire, many other newspapers. In 1967, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1971.