Alfred Levitt (August 15, 1894 - May 25, 2000), born Avraham Levitt in Starodub, Russian Empire, was a painter and an expert on prehistoric art who migrated to the United States in 1911 and was made a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the government of France for his studies of paleolithic cave paintings.

Levitt was an anarchist whose friends included radicals Emma Goldman and Jack London as well as artist Marcel Duchamp.

Alfred Levitt

Twenty of his works are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He was also a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 1956. His papers are now in the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.

Alfred Levitt

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1894 births

2000 deaths

American anarchists

American centenarians

Men centenarians

Jewish American artists

Russian anarchists

Russian centenarians

Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States

Alfred Levitt