Artist Monograph

Leon Levinstein, American

American, 1910–1988

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Production by Decade

10

1950s

2

1960s

1

1970s

1

1980s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	1	7.1%
Medium (30–100 cm)	13	92.9%

Range: 28.8 cm → 49.1 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1959	3
1987	7
1994	2
1998	1
2001	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 14 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled Photograph Acc. 263.1959	c. 1950	Gelatin silver print	8 5/16 × 11 3/8" (21.2 × 28.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Coney Island Photograph Acc. 372.1998	1952	Gelatin silver print	9 3/4 × 12 5/16" (24.8 × 31.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Lower East Side Photograph Acc. 52.1987	c. 1952	Gelatin silver print	13 9/16 × 16 7/16" (34.4 × 41.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist in memory of Harry Lapow
Untitled Photograph Acc. 33.1994	c. 1952	Gelatin silver print	13 7/16 × 10 15/16" (34.2 × 27.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Untitled Photograph Acc. 34.1994	c. 1952	Gelatin silver print	10 15/16 × 13 7/8" (27.8 × 35.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Coney Island Photograph Acc. 261.1959	c. 1955	Gelatin silver print	13 13/16 × 13 11/16" (35.0 × 34.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Untitled Photograph Acc. 262.1959	c. 1955	Gelatin silver print	10 9/16 × 13 11/16" (26.9 × 34.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
"Confusion" Photograph Acc. 2037.2001	c. 1957	Gelatin silver print	12 3/16 × 8 9/16" (31 × 21.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	The New York Times Collection
Harlem Photograph Acc. 51.1987	c. 1958	Gelatin silver print	13 3/8 × 16 3/8" (34.1 × 41.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Joseph G. Mayer Fund
Fifth Avenue Photograph Acc. 54.1987	c. 1959	Gelatin silver print	10 1/2 × 13 7/16" (26.7 × 34.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist in memory of Lisette Model
Lower East Side, New York Photograph Acc. 48.1987	c. 1963	Gelatin silver print	11 1/16 × 13 7/8" (28.1 × 35.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Joseph G. Mayer Fund
Fifth Avenue Photograph Acc. 49.1987	1969	Gelatin silver print	16 15/16 × 14 1/16" (43 × 35.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Joseph G. Mayer Fund
Forty-Second Street and Broadway Photograph Acc. 53.1987	c. 1974	Gelatin silver print	16 1/2 × 12 9/16" (41.9 × 32 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist in memory of Sid Grossman
Coney Island Photograph Acc. 50.1987	1980	Gelatin silver print	15 5/8 × 19 5/16" (39.6 × 49.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Joseph G. Mayer Fund