Contemporary American Artists: Julian Levi

In his Confession that he loves Winslow Homer, but is more congenial to Ryder, Julian E. Levi reveals the essential quality of his work. One of the gifted and sensitive painters of our period, he might be called a neo-romanticist, save for the trailing clouds of intellectual nihilism which surround Berman, Berard & Co. His painting is romantic in an authentic and affirmative American tradition, the tradition of those men he admires, the wider tradition of a whole century of landscape painting from the Hudson River and the Delaware Water Gap to the Rockies and the Great Plains as Bierstadt and Moran saw them seventy-five years ago.