John Levee (April 10, 1924 – January 18, 2017) was an American abstract expressionist painter who had worked in Paris since 1949. His father was M. C....

A levee (/ˈlɛvi/ or /ˈlɛveɪ/), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the...

Look up levee or levée in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Levee or levée comes from the French verb lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising". It has two...

"When the Levee Breaks" is a country blues song written and first recorded by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929. The lyrics reflect experiences...

Levée en masse (French pronunciation: [ləve ɑ̃ mɑs] or, in English, mass levy) is a French term used for a policy of mass national conscription, often...

On Monday, August 29, 2005, there were over 50 failures of the levees and flood walls protecting New Orleans, Louisiana, and its suburbs following passage...

The levee (from the French word lever, meaning "getting up" or "rising") was traditionally a daily moment of intimacy and accessibility to a monarch or...

A levee breach or levee failure (also known as dyke breach or dyke failure) is a situation where a levee (or dyke) fails or is intentionally breached,...

new levee to project grade extending across the 1,500-foot (460 m) gap at the lower end of the frontline levee. However, the inability of the St. John Levee...

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana following...

The Levee District was the red-light district of Chicago from the 1880s until 1912, when police raids shut it down. The district, like many frontier town...

(1924–2014), painter LaVerne Krause (1924–1987), printmaker, painter John Levee (1924–2017), painter Kenneth Noland (1924–2010), painter Philip Pearlstein...

Dick" (Led Zeppelin II), "Immigrant Song" (Led Zeppelin III), "When the Levee Breaks" (Led Zeppelin IV), "Kashmir" (Physical Graffiti), "The Ocean" (Houses...

Lords of the Levee is a 1943 non-fiction book by longtime Chicago Tribune reporters Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan in one of three collaborations about...

important members of the movement. In addition, the artists David Hare, John Chamberlain, James Rosati, Mark di Suvero, and sculptors Richard Lippold...

Kennedy: Louisiana starts 2021 with $1.3 billion less in debt for its levees". The Advocate. Retrieved February 1, 2021. "Highlights from the New 116th...

C. Levee (January 18, 1891, Chicago – May 24, 1972, Palm Springs, California) was born Michael C. Levee. Beginning his career as a prop man, Levee worked...

included Henry Moore, Sam Francis, John Levee, Paul Wonner, James Jarvaise, Richard Diebenkorn, William Dole, John Rosenbaum, Jack Zajac, Giacomo Benevelli...

poetry. He published a few poems in his lifetime, of which King Coal’s levee was the most celebrated. This poem was first published in 1818, with a print...

Bitran from Turkey; Zao Wou-Ki from China; Sugai from Japan; Sam Francis, John Franklin Koenig, Jack Youngerman and Paul Jenkins from the U.S.A and Yehezkel...

John Luca Levee (born 21 February 1997) is a Jamaican footballer who plays as a midfielder for Dulwich Hamlet. Levee started his career at Real Mona, before...

Arizona. He followed that with work supervising survey parties repairing levee breaks on the lower Colorado River. During 1911–12, he was head of the commissary...

Levee camps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river...

Levee Town is the seventh studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records October 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth's...

as Levee (2004, direction: Gemma Bodinetz) and the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre in a production starring Antonio Fargas as Toledo, Ram John Holder...

Prodigal Son: The Collection (2000) - source material from 1973 and 1977 Levee Town (2000; re-released 2009 with five bonus tracks) The Road We're On (2003)...

1968. Dillon, Charlotte. "John Paul Jones Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 November 2008. Andy Fyfe (2003), When the Levee Breaks: The Making of Led...

Louisiana Flood Protection Authority (SLFPA), which is the levee board overseeing several separate levee districts in the New Orleans area, and the state's Coastal...

Levee Blues is the second album from American band Potliquor released in 1971. Work on Levee Blues began in February 1971 at Deep South Recording Studio...

against several former associates, including Blewitt. Three accomplices (John Levee, Richard Oakey and Matthew Flood) were hanged on the strength of Blake's...