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BEATRICE S. LEVY was born in Chicago, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her outstanding teachers were Vojtech Preissig, Charles Hawthorne and Ralph Clarkson. She has painted in France, Corsica, Italy, England, Germany, Switzerland, North Africa, .Spain and Canada, and in this country in New Mexico, Massachusetts, California, Louisiana and Kentucky. She is a member of the Chicago Society, of Artists, the Chicago Society of Etchers, The Arts Club of Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago Alumni Association and the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. She has exhibited in Paris, London, the Carnegie International, in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy and the Print Club, in Philadelphia, the Brooklyn Museum. in Brooklyn, N. Y., and in Boston, New York City, Washington, D. C., Milwaukee, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Florence, Italy. One-artist exhibitions of her work have been held in New York, Boston, the Philadelphia Print Club, the Washington, D. C., Art Club and the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, D. C., the Art Institute of Chicago, the Layton Gallery of Milwaukee, and in .San Francisco and Grand Rapids. She was awarded a gold medal by the Chicago Society of Artists in 1928, the prize of the Chicago Society of Etchers in International Etching Exhibition in 1930, honorable mention in Exhibition of American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1930, the Robert Rice Jenkins Prize at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1923, and honorable mention in the Panama Pacific Exposition for etching in 1915. Pieces of hers are included in the Art Institute of Chicago Print Collection and the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, the Los Angeles Museum, the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque Nationale of France. Her work has been written about in various American newspapers and in The Arts and the American Magazine of Art, by C. J. Bulliet, Marguerite B. Williams, C. H. Bonte of Philadelphia, Leila Mechlin of Washington, and others.