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Gail Levin is is a scholar and curator whose work on twentieth century American art. Her writings have been published in more than fifteen countries and her exhibitions shown throughout Europe and in Japan. The author of eighteen books and numerous articles and catalogue essays, she is the acknowledged authority on the American realist painter Edward Hopper. Her most recent books include: Aaron Copland's America (Watson-Guptill Publishers, 2000, co-authored with Judith Tick), Hopper’s Places (University of California, 1998), Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné (W.W. Norton & Co., 1995), and Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995). She has also edited poetry and fiction anthologies: Silent Places and The Poetry of Solitude: A Tribute to Edward Hopper (Universe Books, 1995 and 2000).
Levin’s books about abstraction include: Theme and Variation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-garde, 1912-1950; Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years; and Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925. Her biography of Judy Chicago will be published by Harmonie Books of Random House. Levin’s biography of Edward Hopper was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Biography; chosen by School Library Journal as Best American Biography of 1995; A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1995; and a Booklist Magazine Editors’ Choice in 1995. Her catalogue raisonné of Edward Hopper won Special Mention in the George Wittenborn Memorial Awards from the Art Libraries Society of North America. Levin was the founding president of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, an affiliate of the College Art Association. Levin is Professor of Art History and American Studies at Baruch College and The Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her work has been supported with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, and Yale University. During 1995-96, she held the Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga. She is currently on the roster of Senior Fulbright Scholars. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Levin earned a bachelor of arts degree from Simmons College, the M.A. from Tufts University, and the Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She has also studied at the Atlanta College of Art and the Sorbonne, University of Paris. She received an honorary doctorate from Simmons College in 1996.
Levin has lectured at museums, universities, and art schools in the United States, Canada, Europe, Cuba, Australia, China, and Japan. Levin's work as a photographer has been featured in her books Hopper's Places and Marsden Hartley in Bavaria (University Press of New England), published in magazines and newspapers, and exhibited in museums and galleries. Her work is represented in the collection of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, and in several other public collections.
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