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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.259
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title
Three Men Digging
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1933
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/264857

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Colored chalk and charcoal on pink laid paper
Dimensions
50.3 x 32.9 cm (19 13/16 x 12 15/16 in.)
Border drawn around image.: 39.3 x 29.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.r.: Jack Levine
  • label: removed from backing, now in curatorial file, paper, printed and handwritten: Lot no. 6324; piece no. 90

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Agnes Mongan, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1993.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Agnes Mongan
Copyright
© Jack Levine Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.259
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet was previously folded horizontally c. 7 cm. from lower edge.

Publication History

  • Kenneth W. Prescott, Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings, graphics, exh. cat., Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1978), no. 90

Exhibition History

  • Jack Levine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/15/1955 - 04/03/1955
  • 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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