David Levine created thousands of satirical portraits for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments. He was 83.

According to his New York Times obit, Levine’s work was “not only witty but serious, not only biting but deeply informed, and artful in a painterly sense as well as a literate one.” It goes on to call him “the heir of the 19th-century masters of the illustration, Honoré Daumier and Thomas Nast.”

Check out the New York Review of Books' archive of Levine's work that dates all the way back to 1963 here

Listen to NPR's coverage of Levine and his work here

posted by: Brent Carter

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RIP: Caricaturist and Illustrator David Levine

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David Levine created thousands of satirical portraits for The New York Review of Books and other publications. He died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other ailments. He was 83.

According to his New York Times obit, Levine’s work was “not only witty but serious, not only biting but deeply informed, and artful in a painterly sense as well as a literate one.” It goes on to call him “the heir of the 19th-century masters of the illustration, Honoré Daumier and Thomas Nast.”

Check out the New York Review of Books‘ archive of Levine’s work that dates all the way back to 1963 here

Listen to NPR’s coverage of Levine and his work here

posted by: Brent Carter

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