Helen Levitt

[American Photographer, born in 1918]

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Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
4 photographs by Helen Levitt online

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Helen Levitt at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Biography available, but no works viewable online

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!

Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Untitled (Two Children and Gumball Machines), 1971

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
New York

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Helen Levitt in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Untitled (Boy in Doorway), ca.1940

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (in German)
New York City, ca.1942

Helen Levitt at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

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Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Helen Levitt
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

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Helen Levitt: Mexico City

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In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City

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