December 1, 1988

John Harrison Levee  

John Harrison Levee is an American painter born April 10, 1924 in Los Angeles, United States and died January 18, 2017 in Paris. John Levee has lived and worked in France since 1949. BA in philosophy at the University of California, then studied painting in New York. John Levee has known the influence and participated in the development of the "hard edge", made up of geometric shapes well defined in relation to each other as well as solid painted forms, in reaction to an abstract gestural painting deemed too lyrical. In recent years, the artist has become interested in the use of mixed media on cardboard, assuming an abstraction more distant from this geometric art to which he had devoted a good part of his work. He regularly participates in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in Paris. Personal exhibitions 1951 Galerie Huit - Paris 1954 Gallery T'Venster, Rotterdam Landau Gallery - Los Angeles 1955 Gimpel Fils - London 1956 André Emmerich Gallery -New York Kantor Gallery - Los Angeles 1957 Gimpel Fils –LondonAndré Emmerich Gallery - New York - Gouaches Show Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles 1958 Galerie de France - Paris Gimpel Fils, London André Emmerich Gallery - New York 1959 André Emmerich Gallery - New York 1960 Galerie de France- Paris André Emmerich Gallery - New York Esther Robles Gallery - Los Angeles Landau Gallery Los Angeles 1961 Gimpel Fils - London Galerie de France, Paris Esther Robles Gallery - Los Angeles 1962 Esther Robles Gallery - Los Angeles Galerie de France - Paris Redford Gallery - London (Galerie de France) Moose Gallery - Toronto 1962 André Emmerich Gallery - New York Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles. Gallery Moose, Toronto. 1963 Museum of Modern Art - Haifa Museum of Modern Art - Jerusalem André Emmerich Gallery - New York Moose gallery, Toronto. 1964 Nora Gallery - Jerusalem Phoenix Art Museum - Phoenix Arizona Galerie de France, Paris 1965 Krannert Museum - University of Illinois Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Ohio André Emmerich Gallery - New York Galerie de France 1966 Gimpel Fils - London André Emmerich Gallery - New York 1969 Galerie de France - Paris Tel Aviv Museum, Israel. 1970 Margo Leavin Gallery - Los Angeles 1971 Komy Galerie - Geneva Galerie du Quet - Lausanne 1972 Liatowitsh Galerie - Basel 1977 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs - California 1983 La Closerie des Lilas - Paris 1985 Kris and Co - Los Angeles 1986 La Closerie des Lilas - Paris 1993 Musée Ville de Toulouse France: Retrospective Works in the public collections Kunst Museum in Basel Museum of Modern Art in New-York Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, at the Whitney Museum in New-York Guggenheim Museum in New-York New Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington DC Musée d'Art Moderne du Center Pompidou in Paris Carnégie Institute in Pittsburgh, Musée du Havre Museum Haifa and Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Museum of Los Angeles, Baltimore Museum Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Cincinnati Museum, Ohio Santa Barbara Museum, California Museum of Modern Art, Jakarta Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art Palm Spring Museum. "