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Jack Levine

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Jack Levine (1915 - 2010) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.  Jack Levine is known for Mod genre, social satire, caricature.

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 Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created social satirical pieces exposing the foibles and venals sins of mobsters and politicians, underworld characters whose actions are obviously insincere. He also satirized the middle class and created paintings of Biblical subjects.

He enrolled in art classes at the Museum Fine Arts School of Boston and came under the influence of Dr. Denman Ross of Harvard University who, recognizing talent, gave him free art lessons. Levine was especially interested in the Old Masters at the Fogg Museum at Harvard. In 1935, he became a W.P.A. artist, using his experience growing up in a lower class neighborhood in his subject matter.

He developed a modern Social Realism while borrowing from the techniques of Rembrandt and El Greco, something he calls "Old Master Pudding." He also learned methods from satirists Honore Daumier, Francisco Goya, and George Grosz.

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Facts about Jack Levine

   Publications  Book References:  174
Magazine References:  8

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8 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Jack Levine
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Infamous New York April 2006 Schwartz, Constance Yes
ARTnews Reviews May 2005 Editor, ARTnews Yes
ARTnews The Fifth International Biennial November 2004 Indyke, Dottie No
ARTnews Bubbling Over in Talent September 2004 Baker, Kenneth Yes
American Art Review Modern American Realism April 1998 Mecklenburg, Virginia M Yes
ARTnews Reviews November 1997 Editors, Art News Yes
American Art Review Thoughts on Collecting December 1995 Schiller, Philip J Yes
Art & Antiques Wicked Wits April 1990 Long, Andrew Yes
174 Book References for Jack Levine
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Dantzic, Cynthia Maris 100 New York Painters 224 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1996 Barbara and Peter Toohil Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know… 363 Yes
1996 Strueber, Michael (Director) Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies 118 Yes
1994 Craven, Wayne American Art History and Culture 687 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Henkes, Robert Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference 260 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 335 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Payson, John W/Henry Gerrit Jack Levine An Overview 1930-1990
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1990 Schall, Ellen (others) American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting
(Exhibition catalog)		 164 Yes
1989 Brown, Milton W/Jack Levine Jack Levine 144 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1988 Columbus Museum of Art The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art 271 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Read, Herbert A Concise History of Modern Painting 418 Yes
1988 Wye, Deborah Commited to Print
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Feldman, Edmund Burke Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition) 528 Yes
1987 Levin, Gail Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection 407 Yes
1987 Mecklenburg, Virginia Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1986 Munson Williams-Proctor Inst Two Hundred Years of American Art 101 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Rose, Barbara American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition) 170 Yes
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Kilgore, Karen American Paintings from the first half of the 20th century
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1984 Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists 288 No
1984 Kampf, Avram Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century 240 Yes
1984 Marks, Claude World Artists 1950-1980 912 No
1984 Sims, Lowery Stokes The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1983 Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection 273 Yes
1983 Brown, Milton W 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C 240 Yes
1983 Contreras, Belasario R Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art 253 No
1983 Gregg, Richard N The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1983 Hills, Patricia Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 No
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)		 195 Yes
1982 Von Blum, Paul Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S 165 No
1982 West Publishing Company West '82 Art and the Law
(Exhibition catalog)		 96 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 301 Yes
1981 Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries Social Art in America 1930-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1981 Deak, Gloria-Gilda Profiles of American Artists Represented by Kennedy Galleries 163 No
1981 Kennedy Galleries A Kennedy Galleries Selection of American Art for Public and Private Collectors 81 Yes
1981 Kennedy Galleries Art of America Selected Painting and Sculpture, 1770-1981 64 Yes
1981 Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward) The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum 60 Yes
1981 Osborne, Harold The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art 656 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 544 Yes
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)		 115 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Brown, Milton W (others) American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts 616 Yes
1979 Doumato, Lamia American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources 246 No
1979 Haverstock, Mary Sayre An American Bestiary 248 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1978 Kennedy Galleries The American View Art from 1770 to 1978
(Exhibition catalog)		 108 Yes
1978 Mathey, Francois American Realism 192 No
1978 Prescott, Kenneth W Jack Levine Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings- Drawings- Graphics
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1978 Whitney Museum American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 148 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Dillenberger, Jane & John Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1977 Prown, Jules/Barbara Rose American Painting From the Colonial Period to the Present 277 Yes
1977 Sawyer, Charles By the People, For the People New England (WPA artists)
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1977 Williams, Mary Frances Collection of American Art Randolph-Macon Women's College 211 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 Institute of Contemporary Art A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976 194 No
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Stebbins, Theodore E American Master Drawings and Watercolors A History of Works on Paper 464 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Tyler, Ron The Image of America in Caricature & Cartoon
(Exhibition catalog)		 228 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Mason, Lauris/Joan Ludman Print Reference Sources Bibliography 18th-20th Centuries 246 No
1975 Wasserman, Emily The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art) 91 Yes
1974 Baigell, Mathew The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s 214 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Gerdts, William H The Great American Nude A History in Art 224 Yes
1974 Schwartz, Barry The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change 192 Yes
1974 Van Devanter, Ann, et al American Self Portraits 1670-1973
(Exhibition catalog)		 245 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1973 Franc, Helen M An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA 159 Yes
1973 McKinzie, Richard D The New Deal for Artists 203 No
1973 Mendelowitz, Daniel M A History of American Art 662 No
1973 O'Connor, Francis V (editor) Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project 317 No
1973 Shapiro, David Social Realism Art as a Weapon 340 No
1973 Wilmerding, John The Genius of American Painting 352 Yes
1972 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard American Art at Harvard
(Exhibition catalog)		 188 No
1972 Hunter, Sam American Art of the 20th Century 487 Yes
1972 Kennedy Galleries Important American Art 1903-1972
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 Yes
1972 Mondale, Joan Adams Politics in Art 72 Yes
1972 Price, Vincent The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art 320 Yes
1972 Tomko, George Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum 237 Yes
1971 Bell, David Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes) 2139 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1970 Hope, Henry Radford (Essay) The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 119 No
1970 Myers, Bernard S (editor) Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc) 511 Yes
1970 Rose, Barbara American Painting The Twentieth Century 116 No
1970 Time-Life Books, Editors American Painting 1900-1970 192 Yes
1969 Brockton Art Center Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums 48 No
1969 Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 Yes
1969 Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed) American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes) 600 Yes
1969 Shikes, Ralph E The Indignant Eye The Artist as Social Critic (15th Cen to Picasso) 439 No
1968 Agee, William C The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 Yes
1968 Barker, Virgil From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting 93 No
1968 Boston University Boston Painters 1720-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 70 No
1968 Norman, Jane & Theodore Traveler's Guide to American Art 436 No
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1967 Artist in America, Editors The Artist in America 256 Yes
1967 Grossman, Emery Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America 176 Yes
1967 Rose, Barbara American Art Since 1900 A Critical History 320 Yes
1966 Getlein, Frank Jack Levine 236 Yes
1966 Goodrich, Lloyd Three Centuries of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 150 Yes
1966 Green, Samuel M American Art A Historical Survey 706 No
1966 Henning, Edward B Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19
(Exhibition catalog)		 209 Yes
1966 Larkin, Oliver W Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition 559 Yes
1965 Geldzahler, Henry American Painting in the Twentieth Century 236 No
1965 Hayes, Bartlett H Jr American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters 141 Yes
1965 Richardson, Edgar P Painting in America From 1502 to the Present 456 Yes
1965 Whitney Museum A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends
(Exhibition catalog)		 52 No
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)		 91 Yes
1964 Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward) Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964)
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1964 Indiana University Museum American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1963 Lipman, Jean (editor) What Is American in American Art 180 Yes
1963 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1962 Hunter, Sam American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1962 Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness Art U S A Now (2 volumes) 474 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1961 Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery American Realists
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1961 Rodman, Selden Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects 234 No
1958 Cheney, Sheldon The Story of Modern Art 723 Yes
1958 Goodrich, Lloyd Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education
(Exhibition catalog)		 48 No
1957 Baur, John I H New Art in America 279 No
1957 Brooklyn Museum Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1957 Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery Fifty Contemporary American Artis
(Exhibition catalog)		 112 No
1957 Eliot, Alexander Three Hundred Years of American Painting 318 Yes
1956 Kuh, Katherine American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956)
(Exhibition catalog)		 47 Yes
1956 Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed) American Painting Today 127 Yes
1956 Tate Gallery Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 No
1955 Museum of Modern Art El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1955 Myers, Bernard Encyclopedia of Painting 511 Yes
1954 Barr, Alfred H Jr Masters of Modern Art 239 Yes
1953 Brooklyn, Museum American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection 48 No
1951 Baur, John I H Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art 170 No
1950 Metropolitan Museum 100 American Painters of the 20th Century 132 Yes
1950 Metropolitan Museum of Art American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1949 Wight, Frederick Milestones of American Painting in Our Century 135 Yes
1948 Genauer, Emily Best of Art 182 Yes
1947 Lozowick, Louis One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors 207 No
1947 University of Arizona University of Arizona Collection of American Art 106 Yes
1946 Gruskin, Alan D Painting in the U S A 223 Yes
1946 Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro) Contemporary American Painting 260 Yes
1943 Kootz, Samuel M New Frontiers in American Painting 65 Yes
1942 Museum of Modern Art Americans 1942 18 Artists from 9 States
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1940 Carnegie Institute Survey of American Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Museum of Modern Art Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA
(Exhibition catalog)		 320 No
1939 Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus) Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration
(Exhibition catalog)		 111 No
1936 Cahill, Holger (Introduction) New Horizons in American Art (Federal Art Project exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NY)
(Exhibition catalog)		 171 No
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