Artist/Caricaturist David Levine Dead at 83

[Dennis Donovan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/arts/design/30levine.html?_r=2
David Levine, Biting Caricaturist, Dies at 83

By BRUCE WEBER
David Levine, whose macro-headed, somberly expressive, astringently probing and hardly ever flattering caricatures of intellectuals and athletes, politicians and potentates were the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly half a century, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 83 and lived in Brooklyn.

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His death, at New York Presbyterian Hospital, was caused by prostate cancer and a subsequent combination of illnesses, his wife, Kathy Hayes, said.

Mr. Levine’s drawings never seemed whimsical, like those of Al Hirschfeld. They didn’t celebrate neurotic self-consciousness, like Jules Feiffer’s. He wasn’t attracted to the macabre, the way Edward Gorey was. His work didn’t possess the arch social consciousness of Edward Sorel’s. Nor was he interested, as Roz Chast is, in the humorous absurdity of quotidian modern life. But in both style and mood, Mr. Levine was as distinct an artist and commentator as any of his well-known contemporaries. His work was not only witty but serious, not only biting but deeply informed, and artful in a painterly sense as well as a literate one; he was, in fact, beyond his pen and ink drawings, an accomplished painter. Those qualities led many to suggest that he was the heir of the 19th-century masters of the illustration, Honoré Daumier and Thomas Nast.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

1. A Creative Genius in his field...

and long under-appreciated.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. K&R and thank you. As soon as I saw the LBJ caricature, I remembered...

A very talented man. ;(

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PtnVGPtWelw/SSgvcBc2i9I/AAAAAAAAF-0/uIoNmE-pxCg/s400/Levine+2.jpg

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Kicking...

:kick:

[burrowowl]

4. K&R

RIP!
A great political artist!