Helen Levitt

Metropolitan Museum of Art announced The Helen Levitt Memorial Fund

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 04/25/2009

New York City - The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today a new endowment fund and promised gift of artwork in memory of the great American street photographer Helen Levitt, who died on March 29, 2009, at the age of 95. The Helen Levitt Memorial Fund has been established through a generous planned gift of the artist’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert O. Levitt, and will support the Museum’s...

• Esteemed Photographer Helen Levitt Honored with Endowment Fund and Promised Gift of Photographs to Metropolitan Museum - Art
• Esteemed Photographer Helen Levitt Honored with Endowment Fund and Promised Gift of Photographs to Metropolitan Museum - Artdaily
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Apparently, Bill Levitt's Sister Was Something Of A Photographer

greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 03/31/2009

Helen Levitt passed away; she was 95, and an incredible, sensitive photographer of city life. Her pictures of childrens' chalk drawings are probably my favorites, and I wish the documentary short she made after WWII with James Agee and...