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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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, F... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (173)
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100 New York Painters
2006
Dantzic, Cynthia Maris
224 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
1996
Strueber, Michael (Director)
118 pages (color)
American Art History and Culture
1994
Craven, Wayne
687 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Falk, Peter Hastings
335 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Jack Levine An Overview 1930-1990 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Payson, John W/Henry Gerrit
48 pages (color)
American Art/American Vision Paintings from a Century of Collecting (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Schall, Ellen (others)
164 pages (color)
Jack Levine
1989
Brown, Milton W/Jack Levine
144 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
Commited to Print (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Wye, Deborah
120 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Twentieth Century American Painting Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
1987
Levin, Gail
407 pages (color)
Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Mecklenburg, Virginia
148 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Two Hundred Years of American Art
1986
Munson Williams-Proctor Inst
101 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
American Painting: The Twentieth Century (Second edition)
1986
Rose, Barbara
170 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
American Paintings from the first half of the 20th century (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Kilgore, Karen
80 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
108 pages (color)
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Kennedy Galleries Profiles of American Artists
1984
Deak, Gloria-Gilda
288 pages
Jewish Experience In the Twentieth Century
1984
Kampf, Avram
240 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
1983
Brown, Milton W
240 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Hills, Patricia
96 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
The American Scene: Early Twentieth Century (Lamplight Collection of American Art)
1975
Wasserman, Emily
91 pages (color)
The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
1974
Baigell, Mathew
214 pages (color)
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
The Great American Nude A History in Art
1974
Gerdts, William H
224 pages (color)
The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
1974
Schwartz, Barry
192 pages (color)
American Self Portraits 1670-1973 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Van Devanter, Ann, et al
245 pages (color)
The Artist's America American Heritage History of
1973
Davidson, Marshall
416 pages (color)
An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA
1973
Franc, Helen M
159 pages (color)
The New Deal for Artists
1973
McKinzie, Richard D
203 pages
A History of American Art
1973
Mendelowitz, Daniel M
662 pages
Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project
1973
O'Connor, Francis V (editor)
317 pages
Social Realism Art as a Weapon
1973
Shapiro, David
340 pages
The Genius of American Painting
1973
Wilmerding, John
352 pages (color)
American Art at Harvard (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
188 pages
American Art of the 20th Century
1972
Hunter, Sam
487 pages (color)
Important American Art 1903-1972 (Exhibition catalog)
1972
Kennedy Galleries
48 pages (color)
Politics in Art
1972
Mondale, Joan Adams
72 pages (color)
The Vincent Price Treasury of American Art
1972
Price, Vincent
320 pages (color)
Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
1972
Tomko, George
237 pages (color)
Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
1971
Bell, David
2,139 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor
1971
Graham, F Lanier
111 pages (color)
The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries (Exhibition catalog)
1971
Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle
80 pages
The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Hope, Henry Radford (Essay)
119 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
1970
Myers, Bernard S (editor)
511 pages (color)
American Painting The Twentieth Century
1970
Rose, Barbara
116 pages
American Painting 1900-1970
1970
Time-Life Books, Editors
192 pages (color)
Three Centuries of New England Art From New England Museums
1969
Brockton Art Center
48 pages
A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde
60 pages (color)
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Two Volumes)
1969
Rathbone, Perry Townsend (Ed)
600 pages (color)
The Indignant Eye The Artist as Social Critic (15th Cen to Picasso)
1969
Shikes, Ralph E
439 pages
The 1930's Painting & Sculpture in America (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Agee, William C
80 pages (color)
From Realism to Reality in Recent American Painting
1968
Barker, Virgil
93 pages
Boston Painters 1720-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1968
Boston University
70 pages
Traveler's Guide to American Art
1968
Norman, Jane & Theodore
436 pages
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
The Artist in America
1967
Artist in America, Editors
256 pages (color)
Art and Tradition The Jewish Artist in America
1967
Grossman, Emery
176 pages (color)
American Art Since 1900 A Critical History
1967
Rose, Barbara
320 pages (color)
Jack Levine
1966
Getlein, Frank
236 pages (color)
Three Centuries of American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Goodrich, Lloyd
150 pages (color)
American Art A Historical Survey
1966
Green, Samuel M
706 pages
Fifty Years of Modern Art 1916-19 (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Henning, Edward B
209 pages (color)
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
American Painting in the Twentieth Century
1965
Geldzahler, Henry
236 pages
American Drawings: Drawings of the Masters
1965
Hayes, Bartlett H Jr
141 pages (color)
Painting in America From 1502 to the Present
1965
Richardson, Edgar P
456 pages (color)
A Decade of American Drawings 8th Exhibition Sponsored by Friends (Exhibition catalog)
1965
Whitney Museum
52 pages
Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964 (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Baur, John I H
91 pages (color)
Four Centuries of American Masterpieces (Exhibition: The Gallery at the Better Living Center, May22-October 18, 1964) (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Hoopes, Donelson F (Introduction); August Heckscher, (Foreward)
64 pages (color)
American Painting 1910 to 1960 50th Anniversary Exhibition College Unions (Exhibition catalog)
1964
Indiana University Museum
80 pages
What Is American in American Art
1963
Lipman, Jean (editor)
180 pages (color)
Art Collections/Univ of Nebraska A Selection of Works/Inauguration of Sheldon Memorial (Exhibition catalog)
1963
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
160 pages
American Art Since 1950 A Loan Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1962
Hunter, Sam
83 pages (color)
Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
1962
Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
474 pages (color)
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection
1961
Art Institute of Chicago
490 pages (color)
American Art of Our Century
1961
Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
309 pages (color)
American Realists (Exhibition catalog)
1961
Hamilton (Canada) Art Gallery
80 pages
Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects
1961
Rodman, Selden
234 pages
The Story of Modern Art
1958
Cheney, Sheldon
723 pages (color)
Fulbright Painters: Exhibits Organized by the Smithsonian Institution in Cooperation with the Institute of International Education (Exhibition catalog)
1958
Goodrich, Lloyd
48 pages
New Art in America
1957
Baur, John I H
279 pages
Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956 (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Brooklyn Museum
72 pages
Fifty Contemporary American Artis (Exhibition catalog)
1957
Chanin, A L/Greenwich Gallery
112 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting
1957
Eliot, Alexander
318 pages (color)
American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956) (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Kuh, Katherine
47 pages (color)
American Painting Today
1956
Pousette-Dart, Nathaniel (ed)
127 pages (color)
Modern Art in the United States Selection from MOMA New York (Exhibition catalog)
1956
Tate Gallery
72 pages
El Arte Moderno en Los Estados Unidos (Barcelona exhibition) (Exhibition catalog)
1955
Museum of Modern Art
80 pages
Encyclopedia of Painting
1955
Myers, Bernard
511 pages (color)
Masters of Modern Art
1954
Barr, Alfred H Jr
239 pages (color)
American Painting in the Brooklyn Museum Collection
1953
Brooklyn, Museum
48 pages
Revolution and Tradition in Modern American Art
1951
Baur, John I H
170 pages
100 American Painters of the 20th Century
1950
Metropolitan Museum
132 pages (color)
American Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1950
Metropolitan Museum of Art
60 pages
Milestones of American Painting in Our Century
1949
Wight, Frederick
135 pages (color)
Best of Art
1948
Genauer, Emily
182 pages (color)
One Hundred Contemporary American Jewish Painters and Sculptors
1947
Lozowick, Louis
207 pages
University of Arizona Collection of American Art
1947
University of Arizona
106 pages (color)
Painting in the U S A
1946
Gruskin, Alan D
223 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting
1946
Pagano, Grace; Donald Bear (Intro)
260 pages (color)
New Frontiers in American Painting
1943
Kootz, Samuel M
65 pages (color)
Americans 1942 18 Artists from 9 States (Exhibition catalog)
1942
Museum of Modern Art
128 pages
Survey of American Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Carnegie Institute
320 pages
Art in Our Time Exhibition, Tenth Anniversary MoMA (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Museum of Modern Art
320 pages
Frontiers of American Art: Works Progress Administration (Exhibition catalog)
1939
Parker, Thomas (De Young Mus)
111 pages
New Horizons in American Art (Federal Art Project exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, NY) (Exhibition catalog)