Study for "Reception in Miami" | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1954.95
People: Jack Levine, American (Boston, MA 1915-2010 New York, NY)
Title: Study for "Reception in Miami"
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1947
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/308401

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on gray wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 40 x 57.7 cm (15 3/4 x 22 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: brown ink, lower edge: J Levine
stamp: verso, black and blue ink, stamped and handwritten: [stamped in black ink:] Artist [handwritten in blue ink:] Jack Levine; [stamped:] No. : [handwritten:] D027 / [stamped:] Title: [handwritten:] Study for Reception in Miami [stamped:] PR [handwritten:] 1947 / [stamped:] The Alan Gallery, 32 E. 65th St., New York 21

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [The Alan Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge Massachusetts (L. 2091), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1954.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Copyright: © Jack Levine Estate / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year: 1954
Object Number: 1954.95
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., American Drawings, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), repr. p. 77 as pl. 45
Kenneth W. Prescott, Jack Levine: Retrospective Exhibition, paintings, drawings, graphics, exh. cat., Jewish Museum (New York, NY, 1978), no. 97, p. 58
Stephen Robert Frankel, ed., Jack Levine, Rizzoli (New York, NY, 1989), reproduced in b/w p. 48

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

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1954.95: Study for "Reception in Miami"