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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.446
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title
King Asa
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1953
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227951

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas board
Dimensions
25.4 x 20 cm (10 x 7 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: JLevine

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[The Downtown Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Paul Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright
© Jack Levine Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.446
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Frank Getlein, Jack Levine, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), reproduced, no. 69
  • Jack Levine, exh. cat., De Cordova Museum (Lincoln, MA, 1968), no. 12
  • Three Centuries of New England Art from New England Museums, exh. cat., Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial (Brockton, MA, 1969), reproduced, no. 89
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 161, ill.
  • Kenneth W. Prescott, Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings, graphics, exh. cat., Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1978), no. 35, p. 55
  • Stephen Robert Frankel, ed., Jack Levine, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1989), reproduced in color p. 57; text p. 55

Exhibition History

  • Jack Levine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/15/1955 - 04/03/1955
  • Tercentenary Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 04/04/1955 - 05/20/1955
  • Jack Levine, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 02/04/1968 - 03/24/1968
  • Three Centuries of New England Art from New England Museums, Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, Brockton, 01/15/1969 - 03/03/1969
  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • Jack Levine Retrospective, Jewish Museum, New York, 11/08/1978 - 01/28/1979; Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, 02/17/1979 - 04/08/1979; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, 04/30/1979 - 06/17/1979; Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, 07/09/1979 - 08/26/1979; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, 09/17/1979 - 11/04/1979; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, 11/26/1979 - 01/13/1980

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