This is the Bench where we Always sit show_depth I think originally I felt

I think originally I felt I’d just discover it was by a celebrated court artist of the day and pay off my mortgage but it’s clearly not as easy as Philip Mould makes it look

A miraculous journey and tantalising to think whose hands these have been through

Professional illustrators have always made great figurative painters

Set up as part of FDR’s New Deal it employed hundreds of artists nationwide and Levenson was put to work painting murals of American history

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

This is the Bench where we Always sit show_depth I think originally I feltMedium Details: Oil pastel, ink, graphite, sgraffito on acid free board