Item 72: David Levine. Max Beerbohm (1974) 

Beerbohm has influenced generations of celebrity caricaturists. Many of them have been based in the world of New York journalism, associated with publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. Of these, none has been compared to Beerbohm more often than David Levine, a longtime artist at The New York Review of Books. Several issues have included Levine’s own drawings of Beerbohm. This one reflects Beerbohm in the 1950s, when Cecil Beaton memorialized him as “a dandified little figure, with his cane and straw boater worn at a rakish angle,” intent always on appearing stylish.