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...Potter Palmer, a bearded, heavy-spending man who ran the biggest drygoods store in the Middle West, sold out to two of his partners-Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter. With the cash he decided to turn narrow, muddy State Street into Chicago's glittering main stem. He bought and rebuilt buildings right & left, and, as a final glory, erected the Palmer House. It shone for only 13 days, then burned to the ground, with 32 other Palmer properties, in the Chicago fire...
Walking home at dusk from an afternoon's jack rabbit-shooting in the flat, dusty San Joaquin Valley, Levi Multanen, 33, thought of his nephew, long missing in the South Pacific. That reminded him how much he hated Japs. Passing the home of Nisei Charles Iwasaki, a raisin-grape grower, Rancher Multanen paused. He knew who lived there-a Jap. Impulsively he leveled his shotgun, fired four times. He walked home, feeling better. The Iwasakis, scared but unwounded, did nothing...
...France. His trip stretched into a four-year stay, during which he studied, worked and learned to carry a sketch pad wherever he went-even when he ventured into Paris' high-kicking night life. Unlike many a French-influenced U.S. painter who works his way toward the abstract, Levi plunged early into abstractions and progressed back toward a sort of poetic realism with surrealist overtones. A slow worker who produces less than a dozen pictures a year, he finally got around to his first one-man Manhattan show just five years ago, when...
Collectors, studying this week's small show with restrained excitement, found that Julian Levi's most effective subject is still the fringe of the sea and the desolation of marine marshlands. "Outstanding was Red Dory (see cut), a haunting strip of beach featuring the crazy profiles of salt-soaked wood forms, two laboring human, figures, three gasping, landlocked boats...
...Painter Levi alternates his sketching on the beach with work in a Manhattan studio that is cluttered knee-deep with marine subject matter: old oars, cork floats, shells, broken pilings, sandpiper decoys, fishnets and other briny flotsam & jetsam. His new show at the Downtown Gallery-ten sea-dominated landscapes and four portraits-is probably a fairly proportioned cross section of the artist's enthusiasms. Says he: "As a secondary interest, I cherish the human physiognomy...