About David Levine

  • Biography

    David Levine, painter, illustrator and caricaturist, was born in 1926 in Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to live and work. He studied at the School of the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; the Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and the Eighth Street School of New York with modernist-abstractionist Hans Hoffman. Though he is best known for his pen and ink caricatures of world figures in politics, the arts and entertainment (since 1963, he has drawn 2800 pictures for the New York Review of Books alone), Levine also paints figures, portraits and cityscapes of the roller coasters and piers of Coney Island in New York

    Levine has received many awards: a Louis Comfort Tiffany Founda...

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