Levi, Julian E. (Julian Edwin), 1900-1982 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1914-1981
Scope and Contents note:
Julian E. Levi's correspondence concerns professional and personal matters. It consists primarily of incoming letters (a few of which are addressed to his wife, Jean Laurent Levi) with a small number of drafts and carbon copies of letters written by Levi. There are a number of illustrated letters and greeting cards (primarily Christmas cards) with original artwork by Levi and others. Among his correspondents are museums and galleries including: Alan Gallery, Carnegie Institute, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Downtown Gallery and Edith Halpert, Guild Hall, National Academy of Design, Lee Nordness Gallery, Frank K. M. Rehn Inc., Whitney Museum of American Art and Juliana Force; the art schools where he taught: Art Students' League, New School for Social Research, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; art organizations such as: the American Academy in Rome, American Artists' Congress, An American Group, Inc., National Institute of Arts and Letters, and United American Artists; and friends and colleagues including: Leonard Baskin, George Biddle, Marc Blitzstein, Peter and Ebie Blume, Louis Bouché, Robert Coates, Ralston Crawford, Stuart and Roselle Davis, Marcel Duchamp, Philip Evergood, Alfred Frankenstein, C. Hartley Grattan, Hilaire Hiler, Joseph Hirsch, Leon Kelly, Patricia Kelly, Yasuo and Sara Kuniyoshi, Anthony Lauck, Jacob Lawrence, Dolores Milmoe, Arthur Moss, Gregorio Prestopino, Walter Quirt , Abraham Rattner, Man Ray, Ione Robinson, Francis Speight, Hervé Télémaque, Franklin C. and Ida Watkins, Max Weber, and Russell Wright.
Approximately 60 letters Levi wrote to his family from Paris circa 1927, survive. They comment on the activities of Franklin Watkins, Marc Blitzstein, and Hilaire Hiler; his own paintings and commissions, particularly for the nightclub, Chez Mister Finney; and his associations with other artists and writers including Ludwig Lewisohn, Roy Sheldon, Maruice Speiser, collector Otto Kahn, and Ford Madox Ford.
Additional correspondence, 1938-1939, concerning the Estate of Rosa Gomprecht (Julian Levi was a beneficiary) is filed with Financial Records (Series 5).
See Appendix for a list of selected correspondents from Series 2.1.
Appendix: Selected Correspondents from Series 2.1:
Included among Julian Levi's correspondence with museums and galleries, art schools, art organizations, artists, and friends and colleagues are the following correspondents.
Abbott, Berenice (1929-1930)
Alan Gallery (1955)
American Academy in Rome (1948-1949, 1958-1960, 1962-1963, 1967-1971)
American Artists' Congress (1937, 1940-1941, undated)
American Federation of Arts (1940, 1942-1944, 1953)
An American Group, Inc. (1933-1934, 1937, 1939-1941, 1947, 1950-1951, undated)
Arms, John Taylor (1946, 1949)
Art Institute of Chicago (1934, 1937-1938, 1940-1941, 1943)
Art Students' League (1948-1949, 1954, 1957-1958, 1960, 1962, 1964-1966, 1968-1970, 1972, 1977-1978, 1981, undated)
Associated American Artists (1941, 1943-1945, 1966, 1972)
Baskin, Leonard (1952, 1962)
Bearden, Romare (1974)
Biddle, George (1969, undated)
Blitzstein, Marc (1928, 1930, 1934)
Blume, Peter and Ebie (1935-1938, 1940, 1949, 1958-1960, 1962, 1967, 1971, undated)
Borie, Adolphe (1927)
Boulevard (see: Moss, Arthur)
Calder, Alexander (1941, 1943, 1945, 1962)
Carnegie Institute (1940-1941, 1943-1950)
Century Association (1963-1967, 1970-1973, 1978-1981)
Coates, Robert (1927, 1937, 1941, 1949, 1951-1953, 1955, 1966, 1969, undated)
Cohen, Lewis and Norma (1969-1971, 1974)
Corcoran Gallery of Art (1941, 1945-1948, 1951, 1963, undated)
Crawford, Ralston and Peggy (1965, 1967, 1969-1970, 1978)
Crillon Galleries, Inc. (1933)
Davidson, Jo (1944)
Davis, Stuart and Roselle (1937, 1939, 1941-1943, 1946, 1953, 1961-1962, 1965, 1968)
Downtown Gallery/Edith Gregor Halpert (1939-1947, 1949, 1951-1955, 1957-1960, 1963)
Duchamp, Marcel (1960)
East River Gallery (1937-1939)
Evergood, Philip (1961-1962, 1964)
Ferguson, Robert (1949, 1952-1953, 1957, 1962)
Fiene, Ernest (1947)
Force, Juliana (see: Whitney Museum of American Art)
Ford Foundation (1958-1959, 1964, 1966-1967)
Frankenstein, Alfred V. (1947-1948, undated)
Gargoyle (see: Moss, Arthur)
Grattan, C. Hartley (1937-1938, 1940, 1942-1943, 1945-1946, 1951-1952, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970-1973, 1977, undated)
Grosz, George (1922)
Gross, Chaim (1964)
Guerrero, Jose and Roxane (1966-1967)
Guild Hall (1949, 1952-1954, 1957-1962, 1964, 1966-1970, 1972, 1978, undated)
Guston, Philip (1946)
Gwathmey, Robert (1966, undated)
Halpert, Edith G. (see: Downtown Gallery)
Harari, Hananiah (1974)
Helión, Jean (1968)
Hiler, Hilaire (1922)
Hirsch, Joseph (1950, 1967, 1973, 1980, undated)
John Becker Modern Paintings and Facsimiles (1933, undated)
Kelly, Leon and Elizabeth (1927-1931, 1933, 1941, 1949, 1955, 1965-1966, undated)
Kelly, Patricia (1974-1975, 1977-1978, 1980-1981)
Kroll, Leon (1944, 1955)
Kuniyoshi, Isamu and Sara (1936-1937, 1941, 1945, 1951, 1979, undated)
Lauck, Anthony J. (1948-1949, 1953, 1959, 1964-1967, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1981)
Lawrence, Jacob (1970, undated)
Manso, Leo (1974, 1976, 1978-1979, 1981, undated)
Marin, John and Norma (1954, 1964)
Mathieu, Marion (1975, 1981)
McCarter, Henry (undated)
McCausland, Elizabeth (1945)
Metroplitan Museum of Art (1941, 1965)
Milmoe, Dolores (1973, 1977-1981)
Mitchell, Bruce (1956)
Morris, George L. K. (1965)
Moss, Arthur/Boulevard/Gargoyle (1922-1923, 1930)
Mumford, Lewis and Sophia (1937, 1939)
Munce, Howard (1947, 1976-1977, 1980)
Museum of Modern Art (1940-1945, 1954-1955, 1960, 1964, undated)
National Academy of Design (1945-1946, 1949, 1952-1953, 1956-1957, 1970, 1972, 1974-1978, 1980-1981, undated)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1944, 1955, 1959-1961, 1963-1965, 1967-1975)
New School for Social Research (1954, 1958-1959, 1961-1972, 1975, 1977, 1979, undated)
New York World's Fair (1938-1939)
Newman, Arnold (1943, 1945)
Nivola, Constantino (1970-1971, 1980, undated)
Nordness Gallery (1957-1966, undated)
Pascin, Jules (undated)
Pearson, Ralph M. (1940)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1916, 1927, 1929, 1939, 1943-1944, 1946, 1952, 1955, 1958, 1961-1963, 1965, 1966-1979)
Pittman, Hobson (undated)
Prestopino, Gregorio (1960, 1962-1963, 1965, 1967-1969, undated)
Prohaska, Ray (1970-1971, 1980)
Public Works of Art Project (1934, undated)
Quirt, Walter (1940)
Rattner, Abraham (1969, undated)
Ray, Man (1928-1929)
Rehn Gallery (1966)
Reiss, Lionel S. (1940)
Robinson, Ione (1936-1938)
Sabatini, Raphael (1973, 1976)
Speight, Francis (1936, 1966, 1969, 1976, undated)
Telemaque, Herve (1960-1961, 1966, 1971, undated)
Treasury Department, Section of Fine Arts (1943)
United American Artists (1940-1941)
Watkins, Franklin C. and Ida (1926, 1937, 1941, 1964-1965, 1969, undated)
Weber, Max (1939, 1942, 1949)
Whitney Museum of American Art/Juliana Force (1935, 1937-1938, 1940-1942, 1944-1945, 1953, 1974)
Works Progress Administration (1936-1937, 1939-1940)
Wright, Russell (1940-1941)
Zorach, William (1943)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Use requires an appointment and is limited to the Washington, D.C. office.
Collection Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Julian E. Levi papers, 1846-1981. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
