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Muralist Sol Levenson has just painted a woman bending over to pick apples. One minute she is in the foreground and the next, her apple-picking days are over. Levenson decides to white her out of the picture. "She was getting all the attention. In a mural, there must be interest all over," he explains. "Besides, I'm so happy making a mistake. Here's a chance to make it better. When you get so old that you don't know you're making mistakes, then it's time to worry...
...Levenson, 95, has no time to worry. He is busy with his current project, a three-panel portrayal of the Civil War at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital in Lebanon, N.H., where since 1990 he has painted 17 historical murals. (Among his other subjects: the Shaker sect, Native Americans and a New England fair.) He is also writing a book on the history of drawing, teaching female inmates at a Vermont state prison how to make a landscape mural and starting sketches for a portrait commission. Oh, and this fall he's off on a Fulbright fellowship to Colombia...
Alexander N. Chase-Levenson ’08, who is working at Regent’s College for the summer, was riding on the Underground around the time of the King’s Cross explosion...
...train stopped for a long time and there was an announcement about signal failure, but I didn’t realize anything strange was going on until later,” Chase-Levenson wrote in an e-mail...
Watson has received multiple nominations for the Levenson Prize in the past three years, and won the prize...