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Nat Levy BIOGRAPHY
1896 San Francisco, California - 1984 San Francisco, California. Known for: Landscape and coastal painting, illustration.
A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation... Read full biography
A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation from the California School of Fine Arts, he opened a studio and began his career as a poster... Read full biography
A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation from the California School of Fine Arts, he opened a studio and began his career as a poster designer and freelance artist. In his leisure he etched and painted seascapes and scenes of the Mendocino coast. He later worked as a graphic artist for Foster & Kleiser (billboards) and taught for many... Read full biography
A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation from the California School of Fine Arts, he opened a studio and began his career as a poster designer and freelance artist. In his leisure he etched and painted seascapes and scenes of the Mendocino coast. He later worked as a graphic artist for Foster & Kleiser (billboards) and taught for many years at UC Extension in San Francisco. The Chronicle art critic Alfred Frankenstein wrote, "Nat Levy's atmospheric renditions are so beautiful they seem as though they were painted with fog on his brush." Levy was one of 25 American painters chosen to... Read full biography
A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation from the California School of Fine Arts, he opened a studio and began his career as a poster designer and freelance artist. In his leisure he etched and painted seascapes and scenes of the Mendocino coast. He later worked as a graphic artist for Foster & Kleiser (billboards) and taught for many years at UC Extension in San Francisco. The Chronicle art critic Alfred Frankenstein wrote, "Nat Levy's atmospheric renditions are so beautiful they seem as though they were painted with fog on his brush." Levy was one of 25 American painters chosen to exhibit at the Royal Gallery in London in 1977. He often served as a judge at the state fa. Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940".... Read full biography
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A painter and etcher, Nat Levy was born in San Francisco, CA on Oct. 21, 1896. After service in the Navy, Levy became an aide to Milton Marks, Sr. in the California Assembly in 1917. Upon graduation from the California School of Fine Arts, he opened a studio and began his career as a poster designer and freelance artist.
In his leisure he etched and painted seascapes and scenes of the Mendocino coast. He later worked as a graphic artist for Foster & Kleiser (billboards) and taught for many years at UC Extension in San Francisco.
The Chronicle art critic Alfred Frankenstein wrote, "Nat Levy's atmospheric renditions are so beautiful they seem as though they were painted with fog on his bru
Source: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"
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