After graduating from The Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, Dana learned the Academic Painting techniques of the European masters at the Florence Academy of Art. She completed the rigorous three-year Florence Academy of Art curriculum and upon graduation was asked to join the school's drawing and painting faculty for the next five years. Ms. Levin is part of a Classical Realism lineage that connects her as an artist and teacher to Jean-Leon Gerome, The Boston School Painters, Tarbel, Paxton and Benson, Ives Gammel, Richard Lack, and her own maestro, Daniel Graves.
Dana Levin’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad; including The El...