John Levee

John Levee

John Levee Drawing 1955
ink on paper 75 x 52.5 cm
Born (1924-04-10) April 10, 1924
Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Known for Abstract expressionism

John Levee is an American abstract expressionist painter who has worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C. Levee.[1]

Background

John Harrison Levee received a master's degree in philosophy from UCLA and became an aviator in the Second World War. After the war he decided to stay to work as a painter in Montparnasse. He studied art at the Art Center School in Los Angeles and at Académie Julian in Paris from 1949 to 1951.

His early painting was inspired by the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, which included Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, among others. After a period of hard-edge painting based on geometric abstraction in the 1960s, Levee returned to his more spontaneous Abstract Expressionism style, often using collage elements with loose brush work typical of lyrical abstraction.

Reference Works in Public Collections

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References

  1. Levee, John H. "California, Birth Index, 1905-1995". familysearch. Retrieved 22 January 2015.

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