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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.75
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Previously attributed to a pupil of Denman Waldo Ross, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1935 London, England)
Title
Study of a Young Man, with Radial Symmetry
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Figure of a Boy
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306897

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensions
35.5 x 25.6 cm (14 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, graphite: Symmetry / Right Triangles / 30 [degrees] 90 [degrees] 45 [degrees] and 90 [degrees] / 67 1/2 [degrees] 22 1/2 [degrees]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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
1936.75
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), cat. no. 89, p. 10, repr. in b/w
  • Stephen Robert Frankel, ed., Jack Levine, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1989), p. 19, reproduced in b/w
  • 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. 73, fig. 2.6

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
  • Born in Boston, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 02/18/1979 - 04/22/1979

Verification Level

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