David Levinthal
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Artist David Levinthal (American, born 1949)American, born 1949

CultureAmerican

Titles

Untitled
from the series Space

Date2007

MediumDye diffusion transfer print

DimensionsImage: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 30 × 22 in. (76.2 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of an anonymous donor

Object number2017.190

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThe young, television-addicted David Levinthal was entranced by the futuristic fantasy of space travel, even as a real world race to the moon began. Levinthal’s treatment of the theme in the late 1980s and again in 2007 makes little attempt to mask the youthful fiction of extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and intergalactic travel embodied in toys and nurtured by comics, television, and films, from Buck Rogers to Star Wars.
ProvenanceThe artist, New York; private collection; given to MFAH, 2017.
Exhibition History"Shooting the Moon: Photographs from the Museum's Collection 50 Years after Apollo 11," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 20–September 2, 2019.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed in black ink, recto, lower right: David Levinthal 2007 AP

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Signed in black ink, recto, lower right: David Levinthal 2007 AP

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