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He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Since 1972, he has worked with toy figures and tableaux in his artwork.
DAVID LEVINTHAL
Hitler Moves East, 1972-1975
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith PrintUntitled, from the series Hitler Moves East
Kodalith Print
DAVID LEVINTHAL
Since the early 1970’s, David Levinthal has been exploring the relationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, events, and characters that shape contemporary American’s mental landscape.
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, organized the most recent retrospective, David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire, in 2018. In 2019, the Smithsonian American Art Museum organized American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs to showcase seventy-four color photographs, created between 1984 and 2018, from two recent gifts to SAAM of more than four hundred photographs by the artist.
American Myth & Memory: David Levinthal Photographs (June 7, 2019-October 14, 2019)
In 2018, the George Eastman Museum presented David Levinthal: War, Myth, Desire, the largest retrospective of his work to date accompanied by the most comprehensive publication ever produced on his work. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, among others.
He received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990. He earned a degree in management science from the MIT Sloan School of Management (1981), a master's degree in fine arts from Yale University (1973), and a bachelor's degree from Stanford University (1970).
His work is exhibited widely and part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Menil Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
DAVID LEVINTHAL
Vietnam by David Levinthal
War, Myth, Desire – Monograph
War, Myth, Desire – Box Set
Introductions by Garry Trudeau, David Levinthal, Roger Rosenblatt
Essays by Lisa Hostetler, Joanna Marsh, Dave Hickey
Published in conjunction with George Eastman Museum and Kehrer Verlag
2018
Published by Kehrer Verlag
2015
Published by Kehrer Verlag
2013
Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43: 35th Anniversary Edition
© David Levinthal
David Levinthal
Artist
born San Francisco, CA 1949
- Born
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Active in
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
David Levinthal was born in San Francisco in 1949 into a rapidly changing post-World War II American society.
In 1997, the International Center for Photography in New York presented the first retrospective of his work titled David Levinthal: Work from 1977-1996.