The Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
Dictionary of American Ceramics, 1945 onward
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Marilyn Levine, Marilyn Anne Levine
1935 Born Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
2005 Died Oakland, California
EDUCATION
1957 BS in Chemistry University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1959 MS in Chemistry University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
1970 MA University of California, Berkeley, California
1971 MFA in Sculpture University of California, Berkeley, California
BIOGRAPHY
Marilyn Levine is known for realistic rendering of leather objects in clay. She was a master of trompe-l’oeil and considered no detail too small to be given close attention. In 1969 she created a process that added chopped nylon fiber to a stoneware body that gave the ceramic pieces she created an authentic leathery look. In 1969 she immigrated to the United States.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Auckland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, South Carolina
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe, Arizona
Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, Canada
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Canada
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio
Claridge Collection, Montreal, Canada
Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Ichon World Ceramic Center, Ichon, Korea
International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, Italy
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles California
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musée National Adrien Dubouche de Limoges, Limoges, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki, Japan
Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, California
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Red Deer College, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Canada
Sheridan College School of Design, Toronto, Canada
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Clark, Garth. American Ceramics: 1876 to the Present. rev. edd. London, England: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1987.
Cowin, Dana, “Leather? Marilyn Levine’s Ceramic Pieces Elevate Luggage to the Status of Art,” Showcase, July/August 1986.
Donaldson, Judy. “Marilyn Levine: A Comprehensive Review,” Fusion Magazine, 24, January 2000.
Kamin, Ira, “Exhibitions: Marilyn Levine,” Craft Horizons, October 1975.
Katz, Ruth J. “Useless Clay, Useful Art,” New York Times, October 3, 1982.
Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: 1607 to the Present/From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
___________, “Marilyn Levine: A Ceramics Monthly Portfolio,” Ceramics Monthly, March 1985.
Long, Timothy and Maija Bismanis. Marilyn Levine: Ap Retrospective. Resina, SK: MacKenzie Art Gallery.
Perlberg, Deborah, “Marilyn Levine and Douglas Bond,” Artforum, March 1977.
Perreault, John. “False Objects: Duplicates, Replicas & Types.” Artforum, February 1978.
Peterson, Susan, “Ceramics of Marilyn Levine.” Craft Horizons, February 1977.
Prokopoff, Stephen. Marilyn Levine: A Decade of Ceramic Sculpture. Boston, MA: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1981.
Ross, Janice, Chemist’s Ceramic Mixtures Create Lifelike Leather Pieces, Oakland Tribune, June 17, 1980.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Playful Improvisation of West Coast Ceramic Art.” New York Times, June 9, 1974.
Treib, Marc, “On Reading Marilyn Levine,” Ceramics: Art & Perception, 59, March 2005.
Zhou, Guangzhen Poslin, “Marilyn Levine: The Master Makes Reminiscent Leather Products,” Ceramic Art, 15, 1997.
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