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1970's Abstract Wooden Sculpture by Ruth Levine

Creator: Ruth E. Levine
Offered by: Fritz & Hollander

Description
A very beautifully executed wooden sculpture by Ruth E. Levine. The movement of the piece is visible from every angle. A little important history on Mrs. Levine. She was an artist and arts administrator who was credited with helping advise Andy Warhol on a controversial painting series called "Ten Images of Jews of the 20th Century"

Over the years, she directed a visual arts school at Rockville's Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, worked for the National Endowment of the Arts' theater program and managed traveling exhibitions for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1993, she turned full time to painting.

She was working at the Jewish Community Center when she received a call in 1980 from Ronald Feldman, a New York-based gallery owner who represented Warhol. Feldman asked her advice on subjects for a Warhol series focusing on "great Jews" of the century.

She said she thought the call was a joke and wryly suggested the Marx Brothers comedy team. She said all her ideas were used by Warhol, including the Marx Brothers, composer George Gershwin, actress Sarah Bernhardt, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, philosopher Martin Buber, scientist Albert Einstein, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, Israeli leader Golda Meir and authors Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein. She was not as famous as Mr.Warhol, but what a large influence for some of the great pieces of artwork that is know to so many. We consider Mrs. Levine's piece a special part of art history and would stand tall in any home.

More Information

Origin:	United States
Period:	1950-1979
Materials:	Wood.
Condition:	Excellent.
Creation Date:	United States, 1970's.
Styles / Movements:	Modern, Mid Century
Incollect Reference #:	117968