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"Born in Boston, Levine developed an early interest in art and trained at the Boston Museum School. He went to Rome to study in 1932, and, from 1935-1940 he worked as a Federal Arts easel painter. During his career he has taught at the American School of Art in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Skowhegan School of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois. His artistic style is based upon that of Expressionists of the Ecole de Paris such as Soutine and Rouault but the subject matter of his art is primarily social satire and he belongs to the school of Social Realists. The restless, flickering strokes of his etching needle energizes the present print and draw figure and ground together. The contrasting shadows of dense crosshatching, rich drypoint blacks and bare white ground contribute to the solemnity, power and tension of this image.
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