Morton Levin

Born 1923

Levin was a Printmaker, Painter Born New York, NY, Oct. 7, 1923

He studied in France, painting with- Andre Lhote; Sculpture-Ossip Zadkine; Etching-Stanley Hayter; Lithography-Pratt Institute, NYC; BS Art-CUNY

COLLECTIONS:

New Britain Museum of American Art, CT Yale University Art Gallery, CT; Smithsonian Institution., DC; Rochester Institute of Technology., NY; National Library of Medicine, MD; Library of Congress, DC; New York Public Library Crocker Art Museum, CA; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; National Gallery of Art, DC San Francisco Fine Arts Museums -DeYoung, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

COMMISSIONS: Mural,

Stained Glass, L Natali Inc.'79.

EXHIBITS:

Ann Nat of Prints; Lib Cong; Ann of Water & Prints Exhib, PA Acad Fine Arts; Salon de Mai; Mus D'Art Mod, Paris; Biennal, Pallazzo del Acad, Genoa, Italy; Galerie Breteau, France; Winston Gallery, SF, CA.

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:

Founder, Director and Instructor of printmaking and painting, Morton Levin Graphic Arts Workshop, SF, CA 72-91.

AWARDS:

Hon. Mention, 21st Ann Northwest Prntmakers, Seattle Art Mus, 49; Bryan Mem Prize, The Villager travel exhib, New York, 64; Third Prize, Washington Sq Art Exhib Inc, 64. Author: A Fantasy of Beasts Revealed in Great Art

PREFERRED MEDIA: Etching, Woodcut, Oil, and Watercolor.

STYLE: Expressionist Style, Figurative and Romantic illuminating the human condition.

PUBLICATIONS: Contrib. Yellow Silk, No. 34, summer 90; author and illustrator.