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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.150.747
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title
Portrait of a Man in a Grey Suit
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1932
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230549

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54 x 38.1 cm (21 1/4 x 15 in.)
framed: 58.1 x 42.2 x 3.8 cm (22 7/8 x 16 5/8 x 1 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: JL '32

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jack Levine, gift(?); to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875
Copyright
© Jack Levine Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1936
Object Number
1936.150.747
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Kenneth W. Prescott, Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings, graphics, exh. cat., Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1978), no. 1, p. 54; repr. p. 12
  • Judith A. Bookbinder, Boston Modern: Figurative Expressionism as Alternative Modernism, University of New Hampshire Press and University Press of New England (Durham, NH/Hanover, NH and London, 2005), p. 88, fig. 2.11

Exhibition History

  • 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

Verification Level

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