Bright Red Still Lifes he was the art critic

he was the art critic of the Glasgow Herald

The Hanged Man still has his legs crossed here in the shape of the number 4 - which is something significant in Tarot - it indicates a benign ruler

I’m not sure if this is a portrait from life or Levenson’s imagined ideal

I imagined that it was a very stylised portrait but found an old black and white image of the young socialite at a ball in 1945 and it’s a pretty good likeness

A proponent both as a critic and painter of the American realist school he must have enjoyed the irony of winning second prize to Picasso’s first at the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930

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