Norfolk Landscape, May 1957 Neutral During the Great Depression Levenson

During the Great Depression Levenson had joined the federal Works Progress Administration

colour-by-numbers easily and I was thinking about my parents and their love and laughter-filled marriage

"Ambrus is one of those artist’s I regret not approaching in his lifetime

Originally intended for publication in 1939 the drawings were trapped in Poland where eventually they were purloined by the Gestapo

and later became a successful landscape and figure painter

Norfolk Landscape, May 1957 Neutral During the Great Depression LevensonLabel on verso: In May 1957, when I was staying at the Dutch House, Edward Seago painted this sketch for me in illustration of a conversation we had about the discipline of a limited palette. The colours were ultra marine, alizarin and yellow ochre. Ian Houston