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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.101
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title
The Quartette
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306942

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on pale blue wove paper
Dimensions
28.3 x 38.5 cm (11 1/8 x 15 3/16 in.)
image: 25 x 36 cm (9 13/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., graphite: [Honbilus?]

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
1936.101
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Bernard Myers, "Jack Levine: One of the Most Versatile Painters in the World Today", American Artist (Summer 1951), vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 36-41, 98, pp. 38, repr.
  • Frank Getlein, Jack Levine, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), reproduced in b/w p. 27, pl. 7
  • Stephen Robert Frankel, ed., Jack Levine, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1989), p. 24
  • 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. 92, fig. 3.1

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker, 1933, Hudson D. Walker, Minneapolis, 04/18/1933 - 06/30/1933
  • Unidentified Exhibition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1938, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 04/21/1938 - 06/06/1938
  • Unidentified Exhibition, Boris Mirski Gallery, 1950, Boris Mirski Gallery, 01/12/1950 - 02/17/1950
  • Jack Levine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/15/1955 - 04/03/1955
  • Born in Boston, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, 02/18/1979 - 04/22/1979

Verification Level

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