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DAVID P. LEVINE
1910 - 2005
| 1910 | Born, South Pasadena, CA |
| 1922 |
Moves to Los Angeles |
| 1929 |
Graduates from Los Angeles High
School |
| 1929-32 |
Attends the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles |
| 1933-36 |
Attends the Art Center School of
Design, Los Angeles |
| 1935 |
Receives scholarship for
painting, Southern California Festival of Allied Arts |
| 1936 |
Moves to New York City |
| 1937 |
Returns to Los Angeles, begins
exhibiting in many Invitational and Juried shows |
| 1938 |
Marries Florence Covey |
| 1940 |
Moves to Mexico City, mad
meaningful contact with the artists of the Taller de Grafica Popular,
including Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O’Higgins and Alfredo Zalce |
| Attends the School of Book Arts,
learns etching, woodcuts, aquatints and monotypes |
|
| 1941 |
Moves to San Miguel de Allende,
Mexico |
| Returns to Los Angeles |
|
| Son Mark is born |
|
| 1942 |
Studies Production Illustration
at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena |
| Works in Aircraft Plants doing
Perspective Illustration |
|
| 1946 |
Begins career in Industrial
Design |
| Builds home and studio in La
Cañada, CA |
|
| 1964 |
Moves to Corona del Mar, CA |
| 1978 |
Begins working with acrylics |
| 1994 |
Begins creating Assemblages with
found objects, detrius, etc |
| 2005 |
Receives Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant |
| Dies in Newport Beach, CA |
Solo
exhibitions:
Group exhibitions:
Public Collections:
Laguna Art Museum/Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna and Newport Beach, CA
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA
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| 1941 |
David
Levine, Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1991 |
Retrospective
Exhibition, Ontario Museum of History and Art, Ontario, CA |
| 1993 |
David
P. Levine: 1930s-1940s, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, CA |
| 1997 |
David
P. Levine: On the Scene 1930s/1940s, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, CA |
Group exhibitions:
| 1934 |
All
City Art Competition, Art Center School of Design, Pasadena, CA |
| 1937 |
California
Watercolor Society, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1938 |
Exhibits in United States and
Hawaii touring exhibition |
| Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona,
CA (Purchase award) |
|
| California State Fair,
Sacramento, CA |
|
| Los
Angeles American Invitational, Foundation of Western Art |
|
| All
California Invitational, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA |
|
| Formalism
and Abstract, American Artist Congress |
|
| 1939 |
Watercolors,
Riverside Museum, NY |
| 18th
Annual California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| Fifth
Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland,
OR |
|
| Foundation
of Western Art, Invitational Water Color |
|
| 1940-41 |
Monotypes,
Woodblocks and Aquatints, Mexico City/San Miguel de Allende |
| 1941 |
20th
Annual California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles Museum, Los
Angeles, CA |
| Prints
& Drawings, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco
Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA |
|
| Directions
in American Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA |
|
| Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO |
|
| Watercolor,
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
|
| Northwest
Printmakers Society, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA |
|
| 1943 |
Los Angeles County Museum, Los
Angeles, CA |
| 1988 |
Regionalism-
the California View, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara,
CA |
| 1990 |
American
Jewish Artists: Their Work of the 1930's and 40's, University of
Judaism, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1991 |
75th
Anniversary Gifts, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
| Chaffee Community Art
Association, Alta Loma, CA |
|
| 1993-94 |
South
of the Border: Mexico in the American Imagination 1914-1947,
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Phoenix Art Museum,
Phoenix, AZ; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Museo de
Monterey, Mexico |
| 1997 |
When
Artists were Workers, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley, CA |
| 1998 |
California
Modernism & Abstraction, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA |
| Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA |
|
| Faces,
Forms & Figuration, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| 1999 |
The
California Watercolor Movement, Orange County Museum of Art,
Newport Beach, CA |
| 2000 |
California
2000, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 |
Head
Count, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Creative
Transitions, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| 2002 |
Catalogue: Tobey C. Moss
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| California
Regionalism, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
|
| Holiday
Highlights, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
|
| 2003 |
In
the Tradition of the American Ashcan, George Krevsky Gallery,
San Francisco, CA |
| Twenty
Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA |
|
| 2005 |
Monotypes,
Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
Public Collections:
Laguna Art Museum/Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna and Newport Beach, CA
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA
David P. Levine Biography
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