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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. His work has been a touchstone for conversations about theories of representation in photography and contemporary art as he has investigated the overlapping of popular imagery with personal fantasy through all of his major series including Hitler Moves East, Modern Romance, Wild West, Desire, Blackface, Barbie, Baseball, and History. 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. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. 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,
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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. 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). He received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1995 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1990. Since 1972, he has worked with toy figures and tableaux in his artwork. 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. In 1997, the Internat
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Biography
David Levinthal was born in San Francisco and studied art at Stanford; he received an MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1973. After graduation, he worked with a classmate, cartoonist Garry Trudeau, on Hitler Moves East, a book of photographs published in 1977, in which models and toy figures are used to recreate scenes from World War II. Levinthal's first two solo exhibitions were held at the California Institute of the Arts and at Harvard, and were followed by an exhibition at the George Eastman House. After teaching photography for several years, Levinthal returned to school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a degree in management science in 1981. In 1982 he opened a successful public relations firm near San Francisco. His work has been exhibited frequently throughout the 1980s and 1990s in exhibitions such as In Plato's Cave at the Marlborough Gallery and More Than One Photography at the Museum of Modern Art; ICP presented a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1997. Levinthal has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and
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