Alfred Levitt
Russian artist (1894-2000)
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Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 25, 2000), born Avraham Levitt in Starodub, Russian Empire, was a painter and an expert on prehistoric art who migrated to the United States in 1911 and was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the government of France for his studies of Paleolithic cave paintings.[1]
Levitt was an anarchist[2] whose friends included radicals Emma Goldman and Jack London as well as artist Marcel Duchamp.[3] He and his wife were close friends with artist Margret Sutton, who lived with them till they died.[4]
Twenty of his works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.[5] He was also a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1956.[6] His papers are now in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.[7]
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