Joseph Levine was born in New York during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and studied painting at the Cooper Union Institute under Sicilian-born master Jon Corbino (1905-1964), who founded the school of Baroque-Romanticism in America. From him, Joe acquired the technique of approaching the making of artwork “from the inside-out,” rather than drawing an arbitrary outline and then attempting to fill it in.
A 30-year career in business as president of a textile manufacturing company in Philadelphia sidetracked his lifelong pursuit of art, after which he resumed where he had left off, studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art with various instructors. He joined the Philadelphia Plein Aire Painters, a group of fellow retirees who gathered weekly for outings in Bucks County, an hour north of Philadelphia, where legendary Pennsylvania Impressionists like Edward Redfield, Daniel Garber, Walter Baum and Fern Coppedge had flourished 100 years ago.
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