David Levine

David Levine (1926-2009) was internationally renowned for his incisive caricatures of world figures in literature, politics, and the arts. For 45 years his work appeared in every issue of the New York Review of Books, and his drawings have been reproduced in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, Playboy, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, The Nation, and many other publications. Levine was perhaps the most influential caricaturist of the late twentieth century.

"More than any other caricaturist, Levine has a fine eye for fraud. Let a statesman parade false affability, false humility, or false sorrow, and Levine will make it into a mask... Levine is a man of protest—passionate protest. And these drawings, more than anything else, are a social history of protest—especially as the artist felt it." – John Kenneth Galbraith

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