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William Auerbach-Levy

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William Auerbach-Levy (1889 - 1964) was active/lived in New York / Russian Federation.  William Auerbach Levy is known for Caricature, genre and portrait painting, etching.

William Auerbach-Levy was born William Auerbach in Brest-Litovsk, Russia, on February 14, 1889. His parents adopted the surname of Levy after their arrival in the United States when William Auerbach was about five years old.

Auerbach-Levy gained notoriety both as the preeminent caricaturist of his time and as a fine and established painter and etcher. His caricatures of prominent people caused Alexander Woolcott, who wrote that, "The true gift of caricature is rare", to rank Auerbach-Levy among the few finest exponents of the art.

His caricatures of famous people, including Charles W. Hawthorne, Franklin P. Adams, Hayward Broun, H.L. Mencken, Ring Lardner and Will Rogers, appeared during Auerbach-Levy's lifetime in illustrations from "The New Yorker "Profiles", "The New York Post," "The Brooklyn Eagle," "Colliers Magazine," "Esquire Magazine," "The Christian Herald" and many other preeminent publications of his time.

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30 Book References for William Auerbach-Levy
Year Author Title Pages Color
2009 Katlan, Alexander W. Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1940-1951 and Water Color Exhibition Records 1900-1951 623 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Steiner, Raymond J The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers) 0 No
1995 Heller, Steven/Seymour Chwast Jackets Required An Illustrated History of Book Jacket Design 1920-1950 144 Yes
1995 Lorenz, Lee The Art of the New Yorker 1925-1995 200 Yes
1991 Kleeblatt, Norman L and Susan Chevlowe (Editors) Painting a Place in America Jewish Artists in New York 1900-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Lang, Gladys & Kurt Etched, in Memory The Building and Survival of Artistic Reputation 437 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist 461 No
1984 Marlor, Clark S The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944
(Exhibition catalog)		 600 No
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1981 Feaver, William Masters of Caricature From Hogarth & Gillray to Scarfe & Levine 240 Yes
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1959 Gilbert, Dorothy (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1959 American Biographies 718 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1949 Reese, Albert American Prize Prints of the 20th Century 257 No
1948 Auerbach-Levy, William Is That Me? 0 No
1947 Gilbert, Dorothy, (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 1947 685 No
1947 Lozowick, Louis One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors 207 No
1938 Murrell, William History of American Graphic Humor 1865-1938 267 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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