DAVID LEVINE. Coney Island Display. Watercolor on paper. 216x356 mm; 8 1/2x14 inches. Signed and dated 1996 in image, lower left. Verso contains a full size graphite and watercolor sketch study of a man in a kimono. Tipped to mount and in gold wood frame with plexiglass.
A beautiful watercolor scene of vendors under colorful awnings along New York's Coney Island boardwalk. Exhibited at Forum Gallery in "David Levine: The World He Saw," December 2014-January 2015 and at Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco. Known mainly for his caricature, Levine was an equally fine painter. He was fond of visiting Coney Island and recording the events of a changing New York. The Forum Gallery exhibition featured many outstanding works from this period. See: forumgallery.com/exhibition/david-levine-1926-2009-fifty-years-of-paintings-and-drawings-december-11-january-17-2015.
