John Levee — Abstract Expressionism Art Works
2 min readNov 23, 2019
“John Levee (1924–2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His early painting was inspired by the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, which included Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston, among others. After a period of hard-edge painting based on geometric abstraction in the 1960s, Levee returned to his more spontaneous Abstract Expressionism style, often using collage elements with loose brush work typical of lyrical abstraction “
