http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress A clear and clean place to view my work. Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:45:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/08/26/otto-dix-at-neue-gallery/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/08/26/otto-dix-at-neue-gallery/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:03:33 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=3215 A few years ago there was a show called Glitter and Doom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was phenomenal and impacted me a great deal. The work was hard to look at because it included many drawings of disfigured soldiers from World War One, who sold pencils or begged in the streets of [...]]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/08/26/otto-dix-at-neue-gallery/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/05/10/city-journal-cover-2/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/05/10/city-journal-cover-2/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 15:59:00 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2999 On the cover: Simon Levenson’s Sunset(2009), one of a triptych of oil paintings of the Flatiron Building in New York City. For more information about Levenson’s work, consult www.simonlevenson.com or call Bottoms Fine Art at (805) 695-0888. Courtesy of the artist.]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/05/10/city-journal-cover-2/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/04/21/greeting-cards-now-available-at-the-strand-bookstore/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/04/21/greeting-cards-now-available-at-the-strand-bookstore/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:00:18 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/04/greeting-cards-now-available-at-the-strand-bookstore/ I am very happy that starting on April 27th 2010 my hand-signed greeting cards will be available at The Strand Bookstore located at 828 Broadway at 12th Street. And are also available at Barnes and Noble Union Square, New York City at 17th Street]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/04/21/greeting-cards-now-available-at-the-strand-bookstore/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/26/mta-beach-60th-street-station-sample/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/26/mta-beach-60th-street-station-sample/#comments Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:13:02 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2898 This is a sample block, shot on an angle, of the artwork I am creating for the Beach 60th Street Station for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The artwork will be permenantly installed in July, 2010. This is one of 400 glass blocks with my artwork painted on it.]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/26/mta-beach-60th-street-station-sample/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/25/how-to-commission-a-painting/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/25/how-to-commission-a-painting/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:58:00 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2750 The next available space for a commissioned oil painting is October through December 2010.For more information about the commission process and how I work with clients , fill out the form below. Below are samples of current and recently completed oil paintings for corporate and private clients. Private Commission – New York City – 30″x40″ [...]]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/03/25/how-to-commission-a-painting/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/01/05/a-woman-named-rainbow/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/01/05/a-woman-named-rainbow/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:52:56 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2669 If you ever get a chance to plunk down $15 and go to a portrait painting group where a woman named Rainbow is posing for three hours, take it. This oil painting on wood is a 10″x10″ square and available to collectors. Contact me for the price.]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2010/01/05/a-woman-named-rainbow/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/13/ground-zero/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/13/ground-zero/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:19:20 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2628 If I know how to paint, this is where I learned it. It was on this very spot when I was in the ninth grade, that I learned how to paint. At least I saw how to paint and I have spent the last many years learning it. I am still so early in my [...]]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/13/ground-zero/feed/ 1 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/10/illuminated-manuscript-show-at-the-morgan-library/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/10/illuminated-manuscript-show-at-the-morgan-library/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:09:40 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2683 There is a fantastic show at The Morgan Library on Madison Avenue in New York City of; The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, “the most important and lavish of all Dutch manuscripts as well as one of the most beautiful among the Morgan’s collection.” I have long been a big fan of illuminated work from the [...]]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/10/illuminated-manuscript-show-at-the-morgan-library/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/08/toulouse-lautrec-3/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/08/toulouse-lautrec-3/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:22 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2614 A writer hears. A painter sees. If you want to make great paintings you must see great paintings (and drawings). Toulouse Lautrec is a great painter and a great drawer yet he is unknown to so many of the people I mention him too. Everyone is aware of Degas who as a younger man was [...]]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/11/08/toulouse-lautrec-3/feed/ 0 http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/james-ensor-at-m-o-m-a/ http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/james-ensor-at-m-o-m-a/#comments Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:38:10 +0000 Simon Levenson http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/?p=2569 Unfortunately, this show has already closed but The Museum of Modern Art, New York, has a neat (if not hard to navigate) website of James Ensor’s work. 1860-1949]]> http://simonlevenson.com/wordpress/2009/10/09/james-ensor-at-m-o-m-a/feed/ 1