Original Val Lewton "Love It Like Levitz" Oil on Canvas Painting

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Original oil on canvas. Signed painting 'Love it Like Levitz" by Val Lewton (1937-2015).

A brief excerpt from Lewton's Wikipedia … Read more Original oil on canvas. Signed painting 'Love it Like Levitz" by Val Lewton (1937-2015).

A brief excerpt from Lewton's Wikipedia biography:

Val Lewton was born May 23, 1937, in Santa Monica, California. His father, also named Val Lewton, produced a string of successful and influential B movies for RKO Pictures, including Cat People (1942) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943). His mother, Ruth Knapp, was a painter and teacher of autistic children.

He graduated from Whitman College (1959) in Walla Walla, Washington, and earned a Master of Fine Arts from Claremont University (1962). After moving to Washington, D.C., he served on the staff of the Smithsonian American Art Museum for 32 years, while maintaining a career as a painter in his own right.

Lewton died in 2015 from metastatic melanoma. Soon afterwards, exhibitions of his paintings were planned for the Katzen Arts Center (June 17 – August 13, 2017) and Addison/Ripley Fine Art (June 3 – July 8, 2017).

He has work exhibited in the following galleries:

National Gallery of Art Corcoran Collection
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Phillips Collection
American University Katzen Center
The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia
George Washington University
Towson State College
University of the District of Columbia
University of Vermont
The Wilson Building, Washington, DC
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