“Levine in Winter”
Vanity Fair, November 2008
by David Margolick

Levine in Winter For four decades, David Levine’s acid-tipped portraits of everyone from Castro to Cheney gave the New York Review of Books its visual punch. Now that the greatest caricaturist of the late 20th century is going blind, is he owed more than a fond farewell?

“Rendering the Essence”
from The Vision and Art Project
by A’Dora Phillips & Brian Schumacher

Halfway through the forty-five minute interview, with Levine sitting at his heavy wood desk, the interviewer asks, “You work in pen and ink?” “In pencil first,” Levine said. “Like Michelangelo did.”  In a mesmerizing moment, he holds a pen and demonstrates how he would execute his caricatures, brushing a dry quill across the paper, turning the paper as he did so, authority in his gestures, though he was not drawing anything, just remembering having once done so.

Obituary
from The Guardian
by Michael Carlson

The finest US political caricaturist of the 20th century and a master of visual metaphor

Obituary
The Los Angeles Times
from the Associated Press

David Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated the New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. […] Levine’s work also appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated and the New Yorker, among other publications.

Levine, An Artist Who Drew in Yiddish

from The Forward
by Menachem Wecker

A reporter once asked Levine what he draws in — presumably an inquiry about his medium. “I draw in Yiddish,” he replied.

Levine, Biting Caricaturist, Dies at 83
from The New York Times
by Bruce Weber

“They were extraordinary drawings with extraordinary perception,” Jules Feiffer said in a recent interview about the work of Mr. Levine, who was his friend. He added: “In the second half of the 20th century he was the most important political caricaturist. When he began, there was very little political caricature, very little literary caricature. He revived the art.”

Devoted Following for David Levine’s Caricatures and Paintings
from ArtNEWS
by Daniel Grant

Along with private collectors, a number of institutions have acquired Levine’s caricatures and paintings, among them the Metropolitan Muse­um of Art, New York; the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum.

2003 Society of Illustrators Inductee
by Patrick Milbourn

His level of excellence has made Levine the quintessential and dominant artist of his genre. He possesses that innate ability to create and convince. His knowledge of European and American artists, from the seventeenth century onward, influenced his ideas and his art. Keenly observant and with a uniquely distinctive voice, Levine’s impeccable taste and skill have set him apart from the pack.

The Artful Populace of David Levine
transcript from CBS Sunday Morning
with Morley Safer

He estimates that he has done as many as 5,000 drawings, adding with a laugh, “The hand never stops. When I’m asleep, I have to hold it.”

David Levine’s Watercolors of Coney Island
by Tricia Vita

For this long-time admirer, seeing one of David Levine’s sublime and instantly recognizable watercolors of Coney Island on the cover of Gallery Guide was a joyful moment, knowing it heralded more.