Famous People with Name Levine

Jack Levine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Levine: an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.where he observed a street life composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills, subjects which would inform his work.[1] He first studied drawing with Harold K. Zimmerman from 1924-1931. At Harvard University from 1929 to 1933, Levine and classmate Hyman Bloom studied with Denman Ross. As an adolescent, Levine was already, by his own account, "a formidable draftsman".[2] In 1932 Ross included Levine's drawings in an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and three years later bequeathed twenty drawings by Levine to the museum's collection.[3] Levine's early work was most influenced by Bloom, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, and Oskar Kokoschka.[4] Along with Bloom and Karl Zerbe, he became associated with the style known as Boston Expressionism.[5]

Sherrie Levine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sherrie Levine: an American photographer and conceptual artist.Much of Levine's work is in the form of very direct image appropriation. She first gained critical attention for her work in the 1980s, where she was considered part of an emergent group of political, conceptual artists which also included Jenny Holzer, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman and Barbara Kruger.Levine is best known for the work shown in "After Edward Weston", her 1980 solo exhibition at the Metro Pictures Gallery. The works consist of famous Walker Evans photographs, rephotographed by Levine out of an Evans exhibition catalog, and then presented as Levine's artwork with no further manipulation of the images. The Evans photographs—made famous by his book project Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with writings by James Agee—are widely considered to be the quintessential photographic record of the rural American poor during the great depression

Esther Levine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Esther Levine: is a German born, New York based photographer. After studying photography at the City College of New York from 1994 to 1996 she enrolled in the documentary photography program at the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1996. Levine, a Leica photographer, has had exhibits in New York, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Switzerland, Guangzou and Mannheim, shot ad campaigns and had her work published in a variety of European magazines.

Artie Levine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Artie Levine: is a former American boxer in the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions in the 1940s. On November 6, 1946, Levine challenged Sugar Ray Robinson. Robinson claimed Levine hit him with the hardest punch of his career when he knocked Sugar Ray down and

Bruce N. Levine            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bruce N. Levine: is a trainer of Thoroughbred racehorses. Raised on Long Island, New York, where he still makes his home, Levine earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration]] from the University of Miami before becoming a trainer. He saddled his first race