Julien Levy
American art dealer (1906–1981)
Julien Levy (1906–1981) was an art dealer and owner of Julien Levy Gallery in New York City, important as a venue for Surrealists, avant-garde artists, and American photographers in the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography
Levy was born in New York on January 22, 1906. After studying museum administration at Harvard under Paul J. Sachs, Levy dropped out shortly before graduating, and moved to New York. There he met Marcel Duchamp. In 1926 he traveled to Paris with Duchamp, and befriended Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, through whom he came into possession of a portion of Eugène Atget's personal archive. In Paris in 1927, he also met artist and writer Mina Loy and was married to Loy's daughter, Joella Haweis.
The couple returned to New York, where Levy worked briefly at the Weyhe Gallery before establishing his own New York gallery at 602 Madison Avenue in 1931.
Levy and Haweis were divorced in 1942. In 1944, Julien Levy married again, to surrealist artist Muriel Streeter. His connections with many other artists during this period of the 1930s and 1940s allowed Streeter to gain helpful insight with her own work during this time spent in and around Levy's New York gallery.
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