Edgar Levy
Boy , 1948
Artwork Type: Paintings
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Accession #: 20071863
Credit: Collection of University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York on behalf of The University at Albany Foundation, gift of Hansen, Jacobsen, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren & Richman, LLP
Related Exhibition:
Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
Copyright: © Edgar Levy
Object Label:
Show Object Label(s)Edgar Levy (1907–1975, American)
negotiated and embraced both abstraction
and non-objective painting and drew on artistic
styles of Cubism, Fauvism, and Abstract
Expressionism. He worked alongside legendary
artists such as John Graham, Mark Rothko, and
David Smith as well as Lucille Corcos, whom
he married. His intellect and interests led him
to study anatomy at Harlem Hospital in New
York, advanced mathematics at Columbia
University, and various sciences in Europe. This
wide breadth of knowledge contributed to Levy’s
unique artistic style and a focused exploration of
the figure and portraiture, as seen in Boy (1948).
–Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections
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