Brett and Lester Levy Jr.

DALLAS, TEXAS–Lester Levy Jr. is the nephew of Irvin Levy, who was chairman, then presi-dent of the DMA board between 1978 and 1995. Brett and Lester began collecting in the early 1990s and own such important works as a trilogy of major Peter Saul canvases: Icebox Number 3 (1961-1962), Untitled (1962), and Columbus Discovers America (1992-1995), which have been featured in recent retrospectives at the New Museum, NYC, and in Toulouse, France. The collection also includes Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker (1994), originally installed on The High Line in NYC, and outsider cartoonist Frank Johnson’s entire oeuvre of more than 2,300 pages of notebooks and 131 unbound drawings, currently on long-term loan to the Columbia University Libraries in NYC. This summer the couple loans an important Thornton Dial to the artist’s retrospective in Birmingham, Alabama.

ART:

Peter Saul, Tony Matelli, Frank Johnson, Thornton Dial, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Yves Klein, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, Joe Zucker

CV:

This under-the-radar pair own a trilogy of major Peter Saul canvases featured in recent retrospectives at the New Museum, NYC, and in Toulouse, France, as well as outsider cartoonist Frank Johnson’s entire oeuvre — more than 2,300 pages of notebooks and 131 unbound drawings — currently on long-term loan to the Columbia University Libraries in NYC.