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David Levine
(American, 1926 - 2009)
General Custer
1971
13 11/16 × 11 in. (34.8 × 27.9 cm)
93.10.2
© artist, artist's estate, or other rights holders
Purchased with the Caroline Gussmann Keller Fund, 1993
Not on view
David Levine studied to be a painter but turned to illustrating for Esquire to support himself. In 1963 he began creating caricatures for the New York Review of Books. Over his career he drew more than 3,800 pen-and-ink caricatures of writers, artists and politicians for publication in not only the Review but also in Esquire, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone Magazine, Sports Illustrated, New York Magazine, Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Nation, Playboy, and others.