Events

Considered a child prodigy, artist Alexander O. Levy won his first art prize at the age of 12, awarded by a local newspaper in Cincinnati. The eclectic illustrator, who was born in Germany in 1881—before moving to Cincinnati, and then Buffalo in 1909—was known for his trichromatic work, in which he expertly blended colors to create accented textures. By the 1920s, he was arguably Buffalo’s most well known artist—predating Charles Burchfield’s international fame by a few years. Now, 30 years after the last exhibition to focus on his work—a 1982 exhibit at Dana Tillou Fine Arts in Buffalo—the Buchfield Penney Art Center will open an exhibit on Friday, November 14 titled Alexander O. Levy: American Artist, Art Deco Painter, which will focus on Buffalo in the Art Deco Period through the lens of Levy’s quintessentially American work.