Raynors HCA 2017-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/1/2017
These two color etchings by German Jewish artist, Alexander Liebmann, commemorate the achievement of the greatest Jewish Ace Charles Levine. Both are 11”x14-1/2” and hand-colored and each is signed by Alexander Liebmann in pencil and dated November 19, 1927. They are titled “CHAMBERLIN AND LEVINE’S ARRIVAL IN MUNICH” and “CHAMBERLIN AND LEVINE’S ARRIVAL IN VIENNA.” Both are in modern frams and Fine. The day after Charles Lindbergh reached Paris in May 1927, the only headline on the front page of the New York Times that did not directly concern the young American aviator read “Levine Abandons Bellanca Flight.” It chronicled the unsuccessful efforts of Charles Levine of the Columbia Aircraft Company to complete the first transatlantic flight. Later that year the thirty-year-old millionaire did fly to Berlin with Clarence Chamberlin, breaking Lindbergh’s record. Yiddish vaudevillian Charles Cohen decided to commemorate the flight in song when President Calvin Coolidge outraged Jews by receiving Chamberlin but not Levine at the White House. The song, sung in Yiddish and English, reflected the ambivalence of American Jews who were still outsiders but also wanted to be part of the mainstream. Like the Americans who greeted Lindbergh’s flight by looking forward and backward, Jews were also caught between the past and the future.
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