Joseph Levine was born in New York during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and studied painting at the Cooper Union Institute under Sicilian-born master Jon Corbino (1905-1964), who founded the school of Baroque-Romanticism in America. From him, Joe acquired the technique of approaching the making of artwork “from the inside-out,” rather than drawing an arbitrary outline and then attempting to fill it in. A 30-year career in business as president of a textile manufacturing company in Philadelphia sidetracked his lifelong pursuit of art, after which he resumed where he had left off, studying at the...more