Florence Nightingale Levy
Florence Nightingale Levy (August 13, 1870, New York City – 1947, New York City) was an American arts administrator.
Biography
Levy studied art at École du Louvre. In 1894, she founded American Art Annual magazine, serving as its editor until 1918. In 1901, she catalogued the art exhibition of the Pan-American Exposition. In 1909, she was one of the founders of the American Federation of Arts. From 1909-17, she was a staff curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. From 1922-25, she was part-time director of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Levy also was general manager of the Art Alliance of America (1917–19), executive secretary of the Arts Council of New York City (1927–32), and executive secretary of the American Fine Arts Society (1941). Her notes are used as a source for the Benezit Dictionary of Artists, often being quoted as Florence N. Levy.
Sources
External links
- Works by or about Florence Nightingale Levy at Internet Archive
- Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: an artist's country estate, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Levy
- The Florence Nightingale Levy Papers 1899-1946 at the New York Historical Society