The company was founded in 1920 by Sam and Jessie Levin in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania as a general sales clearance center.

[1] In the 1940s, the Levin family phased out other items in order to concentrate on furniture.

Leonard Levin, son of Sam and Jessie, joined the company during this time and eventually became president.

In 2020, Art Van Furniture filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to liquidate all company-owned stores.

[4][5] In addition to buying back his own stores, Levin also acquired two former Wolf Furniture stores in central Pennsylvania that were impacted by the Art Van bankruptcy.