Gail Levin
Gail Levin – BRIEF VITA
ADDRESS
1 Bernard Baruch Way
New York, New York10010
646-312-4062
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT: ACADEMIC:
Distinguished Professor of Art History, Baruch College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York, 2008--Professor, 1990--2007; Associate Professor, 1988-89; tenured 1988--; Assistant Professor, September 1986-87. Departments of Art History, Fine & Performing Arts, programs of American Studies and Women’s Studies.
RECENT FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AWARDS
The Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University, Research Award, 2010.
Distinguished Fulbright Chair, Roosevelt Center, Middelburg, The Netherlands, September2007-January 2008.
National Association of Women Artists, Award for Biography and Art History, April 19, 2007.
RutgersUniversity, Award for “Distinction in the Humanities,” March 2, 2007.
Getty Research Institute, Library Research Grant, 2007.
The Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at BrandeisUniversity, Research Award, 2006.
Pollock-Krasner/Stony Brook Research Fellowship, 2006-2007.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Professors, 2006
Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2003-2008; to Japan March 7-April 21, 2006.
Schlesinger Library Research Support Grant, Harvard University, 2005-2006.
Speakers in the Humanities, 2003-2006, New York State Council in the Humanities.
The Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at BrandeisUniversity, Research Award, 2001.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Professors, 1998-99.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Biography, February 23, 1997.
Honorary Doctorate, SimmonsCollege, May 1996.
George Wittenborn Memorial Award from ARLIS/NA, Special Mention for Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1996.
School Library Journal chooses Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography as the Best American Biography of 1995; A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1995; Booklist Magazine Editors’ Choice, 1995.
Chair of Excellence in the Humanities, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, 1995-96.
PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant, 1995.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Grant for Marsden Hartley: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1993-1995.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Professors, 1994-95, (declined).
Listed in such directories as Who’s Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in American Art, and Who's Who in the East.
DISSERTATION:
”Wassily Kandinsky and the American Avant-garde, 1912-1950.”
MASTER'S THESIS:
”Henry Moore and the Tradition of the Italian Renaissance.”
EDUCATION:
RutgersUniversity, Ph.D., May 1976, art history.
TuftsUniversity, M.A., May 1970, fine arts.
SimmonsCollege, B.A., June 1969, honors program.
The Sorbonne, University of Paris, 1968, junior year abroad.
HarvardUniversity, summer 1967, three-dimensional design.
The Atlanta College of Art, summer 1966, studio art.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS):
Lee Krasner: A Biography (New York: William Morrow, 2011).
Becoming Judy Chicago: A Biographyof the Artist, New York: Harmony Books, 2007.
Ethics and the Visual Arts, contributor to and co-editor of anthology with Elaine A. King, New York, Allworth Press, 2006.
Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1995, (as Edward Hopper. Ein Intimes Porträt, Paul List Verlag, Munich, 1998;) University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1998; Shanghai People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, Shanghai, China, forthcoming; Second Expanded Edition, New York, Rizzoli Books, 2007.
Aaron Copland's America: A Cultural Perspective, Watson-Guptill, New York, 2000; Toshindo, Tokyo, Japan, 2003; People’s Music Publishing, Beijing, China, forthcoming, [principal co-author with Judith Tick].
Silent Places: A Tribute to Edward Hopper (ed.), Hopper in fiction collected and introduced, Universe Books, New York, 2000.
Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, W.W. Norton, Inc., New York and London, 1995 (three volumes & a CD-ROM); Schirmer/Mosel Verlag G.M.B.H., Munich, 1995.
The Poetry of Solitude : A Tribute to Edward Hopper (ed.), Hopper in poetry collected and introduced, Universe Books, New York, 1995; (as La Poesia del Silenzio, Milano, 1997).
Theme and Variation: Kandinsky & the American Avant-garde, 1912-1950, Bullfinch Press, Boston, 1992 [principal co-author].
Marsden Hartley in Bavaria, University Press of New England, Hannover and London, 1989.
Edward Hopper, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain, 1989.
Twentieth Century American Painting, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Sotheby Publications, London, 1987; Harper & Row, New York, 1988.
Hopper's Places, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985; (as Die gemalte Wirklichkeit. Edward Hopper und sein Amerika, Paul List Verlag, Munich, 1998); University of California Press, Berkeley and London, 1998.
Edward Hopper, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1984; Flammarion, Paris, 1985; Sudwest-Verlag, Munich, 1986.
Edward Hopper: Gli anni della formazione, Electra Editrice, Milan, Italy, 1981.
Edward Hopper: The Art and the Artist, W.W. Norton, Inc., New York, 1980; London, 1981; (as Edward Hopper 1882-1967 Gemäalde und Zeichnungen, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag G.M.B.H., Munich, 1981).
Edward Hopper as Illustrator, W.W. Norton, Inc., New York, 1979; London, 1980.
Edward Hopper: The Complete Prints, W.W. Norton, New York, 1979; London, 1980; (as Edward Hopper 1882-1967 Die Druckgraphik, Schirmer/Mosel Verlag G.M.B.H., Munich, 1986).
Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978; Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1978; Cornell University Press, 1981 [co-author].
Synchromism and American Color Abstraction, 1910-1925, George Braziller, New York, 1978.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“Art World Power and Women’s Incognito Work: The Case of Edward and Jo Hopper,” in Gender, Sexuality, and Museums: A Routledge Reader, Amy Levin, ed., Routlege Press, 2010.
“The Presence and Impact of Dutch Painters in Twentieth-Century America,” in Hans Krabbendam et. al., eds., Four Centuries of Dutch-American Relations, 1609-2009, published for the RooseveltStudyCenter by SUNY Press, 2009, pp. 1071-1080.
“Modern and Postmodern Art and Architecture,” in A Companion to the Classical Tradition, Craig Kallendorf, ed., Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
“From the New York Avant-garde to Mexican Modernists: Aaron Copland and the Visual Arts,” in Carol J. Oja and Judith Tick, eds., Aaron Copland and his World, published for the Bard Festival by Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 101-120.
“Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish-American Feminists and the Transformation of American Art,” in Simon Zalkind, ed., Upstarts and Matriarchs: Jewish-American Feminists, MizelCenter for Arts and Culture, Denver, CO, January 2005.
“Judy Chicago in the 1960s,” in Avital Bloch and Lauri Umansky, eds., Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, New YorkUniversity Press, 2005, pp. 305-326.
“Looking at White: The New Paintings of Ángel Mateo Charris,” in Blanco: Charris (Madrid, Spain, Casa de Vacas, 2003), pp. 46-57.
"Writing about Forgotten Women Artists: The Rediscovery of Jo Nivison Hopper," in Kristen Fredrickson and Sarah E. Webb, Singular Women: Writing the Lives of Women Artists (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
Essays on works by Marsden Hartley and Edward Hopper in American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the Williams College Museum of Art, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2001.
“Edward Hopper and American Culture: The View through Cinema and Architecture,” in Edward Hopper, Hiroaki Hayakawa, ed., The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 2000.
“Edward Hopper and Architecture as Metaphor” in De las Vanguardias a las postmodernidad, Plauwerg, Barcelona, Spain, 2001.
Essays on works by Edward Hopper for American Twentieth-Century Watercolors at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Intitute Museum of Art, Utica, New York, 2000.
"The World of Angel Mateo Charris," in Angel Mateo Charris, IVAM (Institut Valencià Art Modern) Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, 1999 and Madrid, Spain, 2000.
Articles on Edward Hopper and Marsden Hartley for American National Biography, Oxford University Press, under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1999, vol. 10, 254-257 and vol. 11, pp. 197-199.
"Hemingway, España y Las Artes Plásticas," ("Hemingway, Spain, and the Visual Arts"), in Documenta Hemingway, Centre Cultural La Beneficencia, Valencia, Spain, 1998, pp. 161-182 and 273-277.
"Bilder der Arbeit in America und Europe 1900-1930," in Work & Culture, Büro. Inszenierung von Arbeit, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, Ritter Verlag, 1998, pp. 149-155.
"Angel Mateo Charris, Gonzalo Sicre Maqueda, y lo hopperiano," in Cape Cod - Cabo de Palos, Mestizo Press, Valencia, Spain, 1997.
Entries on Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Morgan Russell, and Synchromism in The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, England, 1996.
"The Role of Drawing in the Art of Edward Hopper," (reprinted) and "Josephine Hopper," The Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA, 1996, pp. 14-25 and 28-31.
“Edward Hopper and the Democratic Experience,” in Democracy and the Arts in the United States, Fink Verlag, Munich, Germany, 1995.
"Les Ballet Suédois and American Culture," in Avant-Garde in Paris: The Swedish Ballet, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1995.
“Edward Hopper's Legacy,” in Edward Hopper and the American Imagination, Whitney Museum of American Art & W.W. Norton, & Co., Inc., New York, 1995.
Entries on Marsden Hartley and Edward Hopper for Master Paintings From The Butler Institute of American Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1994.
Entry on Marsden Hartley in Life Lines: American Master Drawings (1788-1962) From the Munson-Williams-Proctor Intitute, Utica, New York, 1994.
PUBLICATIONS (PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS):
“Chi ha paura di Judy Chicago,” in Le Voci della Luna, Bologna, Italy, March 2009, no. 43, pp. 12-15.
“Censorship, Politics and Sexual Imagery in the Work of Jewish-American Feminist Artists,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, Indiana University Press; Number 14, Fall 5768/2007, pp. 63-96.
“Beyond the Pale: Lee Krasner and Jewish Identity,” Woman’s Art Journal, published by Rutgers University, Fall 2007, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 28-34.
"Art Meets Politics: How Judy Chicago's Dinner Party Came to Brooklyn," Dissent, published by the Foundation For the Study of Independent Social Ideas, Inc., New York, NY, Spring 2007, 87-92; reprinted autumn 2007 in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, published by the Rain and Thunder Collective, Northampton, Massachusetts, issue #36, pp. 33-36.
“A Scholar's Perspective: The Edward Hopper Catalogue Raisonné,” in Catalogues Raisonnés and the Authentication Process—Where the Ivory Tower Meets the Marketplace: IFAR Journal, The International Foundation for Art Research, New York, special double issue, Volume 8, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall 2006, pp. 117-121.
“Beyond the Pale: Jewish Identity, Radical Politics, and Feminist Art in the United States,” Modern Jewish Studies, vol. 1, # 2, July 2005, pp. 205-232.
“Janet Sobel: Primitivist, Surrealist, and Abstract Expressionist,” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 26, no. 1, May 2005, pp. 8-14.
“Between Two Worlds: Folk Culture, Identity, and the American Art of Yasuo Kuniyoshi,” Archives of American Art Journal, vol. 43, nos. 3-4, 2003 (October 2004), pp. 2-17.
“Problems in Dating: Putting the Catalogue Raisonné in Order,” CRSA Forum The Newsletter of the Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, Autumn 2004, no. 15, pp. 1 and 5-9.
“American Women Artists, Art Dealers, and Museum Personnel: Feminists or Self-Involved Careerists?,” Art Research, vol. 4, March 2004, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, pp. 5-22.
“Biography and the Visual Arts: The Problematic Interface of Images and Life,” Biography and Source Studies, vol. 8, 2004, pp. 121-137.
”Learning to Appreciate Judy Chicago,” Women in the Arts, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Fall 2002, vol. XX, No. 2, pp. 12-17.
“Learning about the Self through Biography,” in Biography and Source Studies, vol. 7, 2002, pp. 1-16.
“Being American: Folk Origins of Appalachian Spring,” in Aaron Copland: Letter from Copland House, Cortland Manor, New York, spring 2001, vol. IV, no. 1, p. 3.
“Edward Hopper y el cine,” in Arte y Parte, Spain, number 28, August/September 2000, pp. 38- 61.
“Visualizing Modernity and Tradition in Copland’s America,” in Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter, vol. XXX, no.1, fall 2000, pp. 6-7 and 15.
"Treasure and Trouble: The Role of Gender in the Reception of New Archival Sources", Biography and Source Studies, vol. 5, AMS Press, Inc., 2000, pp. 1-16.
"The Painterly Vision of Derek Walcott and Donald Hinkson," in Latino (a) Research Review, vol. 4, no. 1-2, spring/winter 2000, pp. 46-48, (co-author with John B.Van Sickle).
"Elie Nadelman's New Classicism," in Sculpture Review, Spring 1998, vol. XLVI, no. 4, pp. 9-11; revised version of 1997 monograph article; (co-author with John B. Van Sickle).
"Edward Hopper's 'Nighthawks,' Surrealism, and the War," in Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism, Museum Studies, vol. 22, Art Institute of Chicago, 1996, pp. 180-195.
“Biography & Catalogue Raisonné: Edward Hopper in Two Genres," Biography and Source Studies, vol. 2, 1996.
"Edward Hopper: Through the Biographer's Lens," Art Times, 12, September 1995, pp. 12-13.
"Changing Cultures: The Recent Immigration of Chinese Artists to the United States," Asian Art News, September-October 1994, pp. 70-73.
“Photography's `Appeal' to Marsden Hartley,” The Yale University Library Gazette, October 1993, pp. 12-42.
“Marsden Hartley's `Amerika': Between Native American and German Folk Art,” American Art Review, Winter 1992, pp. 122-125 & 170-172.
“The Recent Immigration of Chinese Artists to the USA,” Vytvarne Umeni The Magazine for Contemporary Art, Prague, 1992, pp. 103-107.
“Reflections on Painting in Marsden Hartley's Poem: `Lewiston is a Pleasant Place,'” Provincetown Arts, summer 1992, pp. 97-98.
“The Response to Picasso's Guernica in New York,” Jong Holland (The Netherlands), vol. 7, 1991, pp. 2-11.
“Immigrant Artists from China,” Art Times, vol. 7, no. 9, May 1991, pp. 10-11.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (TRAVEL ESSAYS, BOOK, EXHIBITION, AND FILM REVIEWS):
“Marsden Hartley: Race, Region and Nation,” The New York Times Book Review, August 7, 2005, p. 20.
“Mr. and Mrs. Hopper,” London Review of Books,” June 17, 2004, pp. 32-33.
“The Unknown Night: The Madness and Genius of R.A. Blakelock, an American Painter,” The New York Times Book Review, March 2, 2003, p. 22.
” Japan: Tracing the Shadow of an Artist,” The Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2001, pp. L8 & 9.
“Trinidad and Tobago: Back to Nature in the Tropics,” The Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2001, p. L13.
"Edward Hopper's Nyack," The New York Times, September 8, 1995, pp. C1 and C7.
"Nighthawks and Brownstones," in Traveling in Style, The Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1994, pp. 30-31 & 45-46.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (PHOTOGRAPHS):
One color photograph in Paul Brach: The Negative Way, The Geometry of Faith and Music of the Spheres, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, Nov.-Dec. 2002.
One color photograph in Iowa Museum Magazine, Iowa City, IA, Oct. 2002, vol. 85, p. 25.
One color and one black and white photograph in The Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2001, pp. L8 & 9.
One color photograph in The Los Angeles Times, January 28, 2001, page L13.
Four color photographs in Shukan Bijutsukan (The Weekly Museum), Tokyo, Japan, October 31, 2000.
One color photograph in Residential Architect, July/August 2000, p. 104.
Two black and white photographs in Miriam Schapiro Works on Paper: A Thirty Year Retropective, Tucson Museum of Art, 1999.
Three color photographs accompaning "A Poet's St. Lucia," in The Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1998, section L, pp. 1 and 13.
Cape Cod Life, June 1996, three color photographs.
Edward Hopper: A Catalogue Raisonné, W.W. Norton, Inc., New York, black and white photograph.
Two black and white photographs accompanying "Edward Hopper's Nyack," The New York Times, September 8, 1995, pp. C1 and C7.
Three color photographs accompanying "Nighthawks and Brownstones," in Traveling in Style,
The Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1994, pp. 30-31 & 45-46
Two color photographs on cover of Anne Tyler, Si Ilega a amanecer [If Morning Ever Comes], Alianza Editorial, S.A. Madrid, Spain, 1990.
Eight color photographs in Marsden Hartley in Bavaria, University Press of New England, Hannover and London, 1989.
One black and white photograph of John Huston in Calendar of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Rahleigh, North Carolina, November 1988, announcing symposium, "The Role of the Visual Arts in the Films of John Huston.
Twenty-four color and eight black and white photographs in Hopper's Places, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1985.
%¸wï*PHOTOGRAPHS in PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY.
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, of the Stony Brook Foundation of the State University of New York, East Hampton, NY.
RECENT PROFESSIONAL PAPERS PRESENTED:
“Secular Jewish Artists: Defining Jewish Identity in Cosmopolitan Terms,” in “Jewish Identities and Avant-garde Movement in Poland,” Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi, Lodz, Poland, October 15-17, 2009.
“Lee Krasner’s Jewish Identity and Eastern Europe,” "Jewish Artists in Central and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century to WW2", The First Congress of Jewish Art, Kazimierz on Vistula, Poland, October 27-29, 2008.
“Valencia’s Fallas in Historical Perspective,” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association of North America, Los Angeles, CA, February 26, 2009.
"Lee Krasner’s Ambivalence towards Feminism and Feminist Art,”Cultural Studies Association conference, New York City, May 24, 2008.
“Judy Chicago: An Artist Who Challenged the Establishment,” at "The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago:Its Historical Significance & Influence,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Saturday May 12, 2007.
“Lee Krasner and Jewish Identity,” in the symposium, “The Art and Life of Lee Krasner: Recollections, Cultural Context, and New Perspectives, Stony Brook/Manhattan Center, SUNY, April 12- 13, 2007
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“Marsden Hartley and Photography,” American Painting and Photography, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM, July 7, 2006.
“Judy Chicago’s Art and Politics Before Feminism,” on the panel “Los Angeles Art of the 1960s: A Critical Reevaluation,” annual meeting of the College Art Association, February 24, 2006, Boston, MA.
“Edward Hopper’s Landscape as Metaphor,” at Encounters with the Land: A Seminar in New York, New York University, May 15, 2005.
“Problems in Dating: Putting the Catalogue Raisonné in Order,” at The Catalogue Raisonné: A Seminar in New York, New York University, April 17, 2004.
”How Realism Can be Modern,” in “Redefining American Modernism,” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, February 19, 2004.
“Kandinsky and the American Avant-garde,” Voldemars Matvejs conference at the State Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia, January 27, 2003.
“Jewish Identity, Radical Politics, and Feminist Art,” in “American Art at the Crossroads,” The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, April 19, 2002.
“The Catalogue Raisonné Post-publication: Dealing with the Field,” International Foundation for Art Research (IFAR), in “The Catalogue Raisonné,” December 14, 2001, New York City.
“From Kaunas to Chicago: The Legacy of Immigrant Jews for Feminist Art,” in Beginnings and Ends of Emigration: Life without Borders in the Contemporary World, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, November 23, 2001.
"Hopper and the Jazz Age," in "Hoppermania: A Interdisciplinary Symposium," Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA, April 21, 2001.
"The Typology of Scholarly Erasure," in "Writing Art History and the Issue of Erasure," College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2, 2001.
"Jo Nivison Hopper: Preserving Professional Identity Eclipsed by Marriage," in "Women Writing Women's Lives Tenth Anniversary Conference," The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, December 8, 2000.