Alfred Levitt

For the American film and television screenwriter, see Alfred Lewis Levitt.

Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 25, 2000), born Avraham Levitt in Starodub, Russian Empire, was a painter and an expert on prehistoric art who migrated to the United States in 1911 and was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the government of France for his studies of Paleolithic cave paintings. ^[1]

Levitt was an anarchist ^[2] whose friends included radicals Emma Goldman and Jack London as well as artist Marcel Duchamp. ^[3] He and his wife were close friends with artist Margret Sutton, who lived with them till they died. ^[4]

Twenty of his works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ^[5] He was also a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1956. ^[6] His papers are now in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. ^[7]

References

1. "Notable Immigrants G--L - Ellis Island Part of Statue of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)".
2. "Alfred". Pacific Street Films. March 2, 2010 – via Open WorldCat.
3. "FILMOGRAPHY".
4. Moyer, Laura (April 28, 2017). "Margaret Sutton, Life and Art". Mary Washington Magazine | Spring 2017. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
5. "Works by Alfred Levitt at The Met". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved May 4, 2022.
6. "Alfred Levitt - Artist". MacDowell.
7. "Alfred Levitt papers, 1920-1984 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu.

Further reading

• Feschet, Valérie (2016). "Alfred Levitt: Le peintre et la pétanque". Ethnologie française (in French). 163 (3): 507. doi:10.3917/ethn.163.0507. ISSN   0046-2616.