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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1936.97
People
Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title
Jewish Cantors in the Synagogue
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
20th century
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/306919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and black chalk on gray laid paper
Dimensions
image: 42.8 x 29 cm (16 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
actual: 47.4 x 31.7 cm (18 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE
  • exhibition label: removed from old backing? now in curatorial file, paper, printed and typed: no. 134

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
1936.97
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Frank Getlein, Jack Levine, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1966), reproduced in b/w p. 17, pl. 5
  • Stephen Robert Frankel, ed., Jack Levine, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1989), p. 22
  • [Reproduction only], Exposé (Essays from the Harvard Expository Writing Program), Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1993 - 1994)., repr. p. 3
  • 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. 84, fig. 2.9

Exhibition History

  • Unidentified Exhibition, Hudson D. Walker, 1933, Hudson D. Walker, Minneapolis, 04/18/1933 - 06/30/1933
  • Jack Levine, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 02/15/1955 - 04/03/1955

Verification Level

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