The Ice Cream Shop Detective: An Art Mystery

Ronnie Levine is an artist and writer who’s been working in Westchester, New York, since 1998. Like her protagonist, she paints figurative oils influenced by the French Impressionists. With a degree in psychology but an overriding passion for art, she attended The Art Institute of Boston, The International Center of Photography, and The Art Students League of New York. She continued her training on her own by doing copies of many of her favorite master works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, noting along the way how her works and those of the other copyists differed from the originals. Her own original oil paintings and prints are in many private collections. Painting in public led to teaching and then writing, and her numerous non-fiction articles about art and people in the arts have appeared in Westchester Magazine and local newspapers and news websites.