[1] After studying museum administration at Harvard under Paul J. Sachs, Levy dropped out shortly before graduating, and moved to New York.
[2] In 1926 he traveled to Paris with Duchamp, and befriended Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, through whom he came into possession of a portion of Eugène Atget's personal archive.
[3][4] His connections with many other artists during this period of the 1930s and 1940s allowed Streeter to gain helpful insight with her own work during this time spent in and around Levy's New York gallery.
[5] In 1949, Levy moved to Connecticut, he was a friend to Arshile Gorky, and he married a third time, to Jean Farley McLaughlin in 1958.
[6] He wrote and taught at Sarah Lawrence College and State University of New York at Purchase.
[1] Concentrating at first on photography, he staged Man Ray's first major show, introduced Henri Cartier-Bresson to the US, and promoted many other European and American figures.
1932, January 29, landmark multi-media Surrealist exhibition, "Surrealism: Paintings, Drawings and Photographs" of the work of Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, and the introduction of Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory (which Levy owned).