Brown, Blanche R, née Levine

Date born:  1915

Place Born:  Boston, MA

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Classicist and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1942-1967.  Levine was the daughter of Samuel Levine and Bertha Nanes (Levine).   Levine attended Wayne University (the modern Wayne State University) between 1932 and 1934 before switching to New York University where she graduated with a B. F. A in 1936.  She was awarded an M.A. at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, in 1938, marrying the art historian Milton W. Brown (q.v.) the same year. She was an instructor at Vassar College and Hunter College during these years. In 1941, she and her husband, a budding Americanist, bought a car and toured the United States seeking out American art for his upcoming book. Back in New York, she joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, as a lecturer in 1942 while her husband served in the army. During these years she continued to work on her Ph.D. at the NYU, which was granted in 1967.  In 1966 she was appointed an associate professor at New York University, advancing to professor of art in 1973.

Home Country:  United States

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Bibliography:  Anticlassicism in Greek sculpture of the fourth century B.C. New York:  New York University Press/Archaeological Institute of America/College Art Association of America, 1973; Ptolemaic Paintings and Mosaics and the Alexandrian Style.  Cambridge, MA:  Archaeological Institute of America/Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957.