Word: levying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painters, fame comes easily and early, with the rolling drums of ballyhoo. This week Manhattan is having a look at a one-man show by Julian Levi, who has built himself a reputation the slow, hard, un-pressagented way. A slight, soft-spoken man with a fierce walrus moustache, Southpaw Painter Levi weathered the depression as a WPArtist, has since sold his work to 15 ranking U.S. museums. His quiet, low-keyed canvases now bring from...
...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...
Food. In Dover, Ohio, a goat chewed the $5 Federal stamp off Levi Weaver's windshield. In Nahunta, Ga., a schoolteacher's horse nibbled a dangling light bulb, was electrocuted...
...first time since 1936, when Levi White claimed the honor, a Sophomore has been elected basketball captain, as the lettermen yesterday chose George M. "Bunks" Burditt '44 of La Grange, Illinois, and Winthrop House as leader of the 1942-43 edition of the Crimson quintet...
...together seven highly rated paintings by well-known American painters (Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Peter Blume, Bernard Karfiol, Julian Levi, Katherine Schmidt, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer) that had never found a buyer...