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"Social Realist" Jack Levine Signed 6X4 Postcard COA:
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Up for sale a *RARE* "Social Realist" Jack Levine Hand Signed 6X4 Postcard of his painting.

1915 – November 8, 2010) was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives. Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents, Levine grew up in the South End of Boston, where he observed a street life

composed of European immigrants and a prevalence of poverty and societal ills,

subjects which would inform his work. He first studied drawing with Harold K.

Zimmerman from 1924 to 1931. At Harvard University from

1929 to 1933, Levine and classmate Hyman Bloom studied with Denman Ross. As an adolescent, Levine was already, by his own

account, "a formidable draftsman". In 1932 Ross included

Levine's drawings in an exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and three years later bequeathed

twenty drawings by Levine to the museum's collection. Levine's early work was most influenced by

Bloom, Chaïm Soutine, Georges Rouault, and Oskar Kokoschka. Along with Bloom and Karl Zerbe, he became associated with the style known as Boston Expressionism. From

1935 to 1940 he was employed by the Works Progress

Administration. His first exhibition of paintings in New York City was at the Museum of Modern Art, with

the display of Card Game and Brain Trust, the

latter drawn from his observation of life in the Boston Common. In 1937 his The Feast of Pure Reason,

a satire of Boston political power, was placed on loan to the Museum of Modern Art. In

the same year String Quartet was shown at the Whitney Museum of American

Art, and purchased in 1942 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The

death of his father in 1939 prompted a series of paintings of Jewish sages. From

1942 to 1945 Levine served in the Army. Upon his discharge

from service he painted Welcome Home, a lampoon of the arrogance of

military power; years later the painting would engender political controversy

when it was included in a show of art in Moscow, and along with works by other

American artists, raised suspicions in the House

Un-American Activities Committee of pro-Communist sympathies. In 1946 he married the painter Ruth Gikow and moved to New York City. With a Fulbright grant he traveled to Europe in 1951, and was

affected by the work of the Old Masters, particularly the Mannerism of El Greco, which inspired him to distort and exaggerate the

forms of his figures for expressive purposes. After returning he continued to paint biblical

subjects, and also produced Gangster Funeral, a narrative which

Levine referred to as a "comedy". Further commentary on American

life was furnished by Election Five Minutes from Times Square (1956). Also in the

late 1950s, Levine painted a series of sensitive portraits of his wife and

daughter. In the 1960s Levine responded not only to political unrest in the

United States with works such as Birmingham '63, but to

international subjects as well, as in The Spanish Prison (1959–1962),

and later still, Panethnikon (1978) and The Arms

Brokers (1982–83). Following the death of his wife in the 1980s came

an increased interest in Hebraism, and with it a proliferation of

paintings with themes from the Old Testament In 1979 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as

an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1982. Levine once said of

himself, "I am primarily concerned with the condition of man."

Following his own direction, he created a distinct body of socially conscious

art that probes the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. Levine's

work is featured in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago,

the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of

American Art, the Hirshhorn

Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, the Phillips Collection, the

Whitney Museum of American Art, the Fogg Art Museum, and the National Gallery of Art.

In 1973 the Vatican purchased Cain

and Abel (1961), to the satisfaction of Pope Paul VI. In 1978 a retrospective of Levine's work

was held at the Jewish Museum (New York). Levine

was the subject of a 1989 film documentary entitled Feast of Pure

Reason.  Levine died at his home in

Manhattan, New York on November 8, 2010 at the age of 95. DC Moore Gallery

represents the Estate of Jack Levine. The first exhibition of his works at the

gallery was in January 2010.

"Social Realist" Jack Levine Signed 6X4 Postcard COA

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