"Fall Marsh"
Oil Pastel, 21x22


"Fall Marsh II"
Oil, 18x36

Roger Prescott Levin is a “Copley Artist” who creates acrylic/oil paintings of Cape Cod scenes on panels of gessoed board. He selects this ground because he prefers a very smooth surface on which to apply the layers of glazes that make his works so unusual. Titian, the great Italian master, used this application of several layers of glazes. While an undergraduate at Tufts University, Levin’s art history professor nurtured his interest in the Renaissance. After receiving a law degree in 1990, Levin decided to change careers; he became a full time painter and moved to picturesque East Sandwich, Mass., an area of Cape Cod which has many sand dunes. For him, the sand dunes began to develop the same kind of importance as figures have in Renaissance paintings- the dune became an icon.

He paints every day, always beginning a new painting on location. He completes the glazes in his studio. Levin has been awarded for excellence many times, even as a young student at Thayer Academy. In 1982, he was selected by Tufts University for an art award grant which took him to Florence, Rome, and Venice. In 1995, he had an exhibition of his landscapes at The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History. The National Academy Museum in New York exhibited his painting Sacre Conversatione at its annual juried exhibition with favorable commentary; the same painting received the Juror’s Choice Award in the 1997 Fall Members Show of The Copley Society of Boston.

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