Bill Peckmann &Books &Illustration 12 Aug 2010 07:38 am
David Levine’s Art – 1
- Of course, David Levine is one of the greatest of the modern caricaturists. His work appeared for years in the NY Review of Books, and actually became those cartoons became the figurehead for the paper.
Levine’s work has been collected in this big, beautiful book. I have Bill Peckmann (yet again) to thank for sending me some of these key pages with many great caricatures.
The juice of the book comes with some of the many and stunning paintings that are included alongside many of the B&W illustrations. Levine is a real artist and these color plates take him out of the world of illustration.
Here are some of the B&W illustrations. Tomorrow the color.
1Aubrey Beardsley
2
Humphrey Bogart
3
Elvis Presley
(By the way, Elvis’ head was cut off in the printing.)
4
Paul Gauguin
5
Georgia O’Keefe
6
Pablo Picasso
7
Jackson Pollack
8
Gertrud Stein
Alice B. Toklas
9
Orson Welles
10
James McNeill Whistler
And then there are the paintings, which I’ll post tomorrow.
