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Jack Levitz

A Courtroom Circus by Jack Levitz Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges is a large, colorful, and well-executed 1930s Art Deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This […]

Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, burlesque, circus, Jack Levitz, oil painting, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

The Main Attraction is a large, colorful, and very well-executed 1930s art deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on canvas shows a seedy New York City theater, with a writhing burlesque dancer bathed in […]

The Main Attraction

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, burlesque, erotic, Jack Levitz, lurid, new york city, risque, Urban, vaudeville, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

A very well executed WPA in aesthetic moody tonalist 1930s to early 1940s fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. The artist was a Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Levitz’s Social Realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on masonite painting shows a New […]

Elevated Train At Night, NYC

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Cityscape, Jack Levitz, New York, regionalist, Subway, Subway Cars, Tonalist, Urban, WPA
Added to Gallery: January 25, 2017

    A large and colorful erotic and very well executed 1930s art deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan school style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on canvas shows a seedy New York City burlesque hall, with a […]

The Burlesque Dancer

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Ashcan School, burlesque, Jack Levitz, jewish, new york city, social realist
Added to Gallery: April 29, 2015

 

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