Portrait of a Young Man in Sweater and Tie

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1936.150.744
People: Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title: Portrait of a Young Man in Sweater and Tie
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Portrait of a Man
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1932
Places: Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/230712

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

54.3 x 38.1 x 2.2 cm (21 3/8 x 15 x 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: l.r.: J.L. '32
inscription: on back of canvas: HS-CG Inv. [crossed out]/ Wt Wt/H. Dk Aliz R. + O. Verm/Dk. Vert Em./Blk Blk/ Jack Levine

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
Accession Year: 1936
Object Number: 1936.150.744
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
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Publication History

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. 75, fig. 2.7

Verification Level

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