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Israel Levitan (June 13, 1912 – May 17, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Renowned as a sculptor, Levitan also produced paintings, graphics and fine art works on paper. The art critics of ARTnews selected his 1959 exhibition at the Barone Gallery in New York City, as one of the 10 best one-man exhibitions of the year along with Pablo Picasso, Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning. After WWII Levitan was involved in the New York art community,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/leviisra2.htm )〕 and participated in numerous exhibitions.〔 ==Biography== Levitan left home at an early age to travel around the United States, Canada and Mexico.〔 During his travels he lived for a time with Montana's Blackfoot Native Americans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.interchurch-center.org/node/60 )〕 In 1934 Levitan settled in Detroit, Michigan where he took a job as an auto worker.〔 While living in Detroit, Levitan became interested in boxing and with union sponsorship, became Michigan State Amateur Welterweight Boxing Champion under the pseudonym Jack Myers.〔〔 In 1939 after a successful career in boxing, Levitan began to study art at the Chicago Art Institute, but his studies were interrupted by World War II. He joined the service as a medical corpsman in the South Pacific and became interested in physical thereapy. After the war, Levitan moved to New York. He first studied with Amedee Ozenfant. Over the next three years, he studied with abstract expressionist painter Hans Hofmann where he met his wife, Idee, a painter and designer.〔Israel Levitan: A Way With Wood, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. Page 3〕 Hofmann, recognizing the three-dimensional aspects of Levitan’s paintings, suggested that Levitan experiment with sculpture. Hoffman set out to find an appropriate teacher for his protégée and shortly thereafter Levitan commenced sculpture studies at the atelier of the French master Ossip Zadkine in Paris from 1950-51. After returning to New York, Levitan set up a studio on East 9th Street and was quickly assimilated into the art scene, eventually becoming Vice President of the American Abstract Artists () group. He exhibited his work in the Tenth Street galleries, along with such contemporaries as Gabriel Kohn, Raoul Hague, Sidney Geist, and Louise Nevelson.〔Israel Levitan: A Way WIth Wood, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. Page 3〕 Unlike most of the artists who worked in wood during the fifties, Levitan had been a painter for many years (since 1938).〔Wayne V. Andersen, American Sculpture in Process, 1930-1970, Boston: New York Graphic Society. 1975 P.114〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Israel Levitan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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