Alfred Levitt

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. He and his wife were close friends with artist Margret Sutton, who lived with them till they died.

Most of Levitt's works can be classified based on location. His scenes from Gloucester, MA, and Provance, France are the most famous of these location-related pieces. 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.