| John LeveeAmerican (88 years old, born 1924)
More Information | Posted: 2007-04-09 | BIOGRAPHY
Born 1924 in Los Angeles, California
Lived and worked in Los Angeles, Paris, and New York
Fought in the Second World War and participated in the Liberation of France in 1944
Taught at University of Illinois, NYU, Washington University, and the University of Southern California
Awarded Purchase Award, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1966; Ford Fellowship, Tamarind Workshop, 1969; Woolmark
Foundation; Grand Prix, First Biennial des Jeunes Artistes, Paris, 1959; Academie Julian, 1950
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Chateau Vaudreuil, Paris, France (commission)
Groupe Scolaire de Chateau de France a Marne-la-Vallee, 1976 (commission)
Prudential Insurance Company, Los Angeles, 1978 (commission)
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Cincinnati Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Washington Gallery of Modern Art
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art
STUDIED
Art Center School, Los Angeles, California
Chenard School, Los Angeles, California
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA 1948 B.A.)
New School of Social Research with Stuart Davis, Abe Rattner, and Kuniyoshi, New York, 1948-49
Academie Julian, Paris, France, 1949-51
EXHIBITED
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1957, 58
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1951
Salon de Mai, Paris, 1954
Salon des Realites Nouvelles, Paris, 1954-94
Salon Comparaisons, Paris, 1978-1992
Musee Thomas Berry, Cherbourg, France
Carnegie Institute, 1955-58
Corcoran Gallery Biennials, Washington, D.C., 1957-1963
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York City, 1957-59, 62, 66
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, 1970
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London, England, 1958, 60, 66
Galerie de France, Paris, 1962, 64, 69
Museum of Modern Art of Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel, 1963
Museum of Tel Aviv, Israel, 1969
Palm Springs Museum, 1977
Museum of Nice, France, 1980
Galerie Closerie des Lilacs, Paris, 1983, 86
Galerie Le Gall, paris, 1986
Retrospective at Museum of Toulouse, France, 1983
Galerie Callu Merite, Paris, 1989, 90
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, 1990
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona, 1964
Amerikanische Kunstler in Frankreich, (Exhibition of American Artists in France), Germany, 1956
Les Peintres GIs (The GI Painters), Paris, 1994, with John Franklin Koenig and Joe Downing to celebrate the Liberation's
50th anniversary
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (PAFA Annual), 1964
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1957, 59, 65
Hanina Fine arts, London. 1990-2007
Galerie Le Musée Privé, Paris 1994-2007
LITERATURE
Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs
Seuphor, Dictionary of Abstract Art
Lambert, La Jeune Ecole de Paris (School of Paris Painters)
Reed, A Concise History of Modern Art
Ragon & Seuphor, History of Modern Painting
Falk, Who was Who in American Art
Falk, Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Cummings, Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists
Stebbins, American Paintings at Yale
Barr, Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
University of Illinois, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
Walker Arts Center, Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain, El Arte Moderno en los Estados Unidos
Tate Gallery, Modern Art in the United States
Baur, Whitney Museum of Art: Catalogue of the Collection
References: ADEC, Davenport's, Franklin and James, Mallett, Mantle Fieldings
CATALOGUE RAISONNE
In preparation by :
Patrick Reynolds expert of the John Levee’s paintings
Le Musée Privé
139, rue Cardinet
75017 PARIS
Tel 01 40 54 77 03
Port. 06 08 06 46 45
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Museum Collections
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