John Levee

John Levee

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birthdate = 1924
location = Los Angeles, California
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nationality = American
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John Levee (born 1924 in Los Angeles) is an American abstract expressionist painter who has worked in Paris since 1949.

Background

John Levee received a master degree in philosophy from UCLA and became an aviator in the Second World War. After the war he decided to stay to work as a painter in Montparnasse.

His early painting was inspired by the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, which included Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, among others. After a period of hard-edge painting based on geometric abstraction in the 1960s, Levee returned to his more spontaneous Abstract Expressionism style, often using collage elements with loose brush work typical of lyrical abstraction.

Reference Works in Public Collections

* Kunst Museum de Bâle
* MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New York City
* Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
* Whitney Museum, New York
* Guggenheim Museum, New York
* New Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.
* Musée d'Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou à Paris
* Carnégie Institute à Pittsburgh
* Museum Haïfa et Musée de Tel Aviv, Israël
* The Baltimore Museum
* Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
* Cincinnati Museum, Ohio
* Santa Barbara Museum, California
* Museum of Modern Art, Djakarta
* Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas
* Palm Spring Museum

ee also

*Modern art
*Abstract art
*Formalism (art)
*Shaped canvas
*Abstract expressionism
*Hard-edge painting

External links

* [http://imagoart.club.fr/levee.htm Biography (in French) of John Levee]


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