John Harrison Levee is an American painter born April 10, 1924 in Los Angeles, United States and died January 18, 2017 in Paris. He had lived in France since 1949. John Levee knows his influence and participates in the development of the "hard edge", consisting of geometric shapes well defined in relation to each other as well as full painted forms, in reaction to an abstract gestural painting deemed too lyrical. In recent years, the artist has become interested in the use of mixed media on cardboard, assuming an abstraction more distant from this geometric art to which he had devoted a large part of his work.
Reference works in public collections
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Whitney Museum, New York, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Dallas Museum of Art Contemporary, Texas
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.
