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Jack Levine was born on 3 January, 1915 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American Social Realist painter and printmaker. Discover Jack Levine's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 95 years old?

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Occupation miscellaneous
Age 95 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 3 January 1915
Birthday 3 January
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 8 November, 2010
Died Place New York, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Ruth Gikow (1946-1982; her death)

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1915

Jack Levine (January 3, 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.

Levine is considered one of the key artists of the Boston Expressionist movement.

Jack Levine was the eighth child born to Samuel and Mary Levine, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.

He 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.

His mother encouraged him to draw and stored his art materials in the family kitchen.

On visits to his father's shoe store, he was given brown wrapping paper on which he would draw.

1919

Subjects of his childhood drawings included mature subjects such as National Guardsmen patrolling the streets in military attire during the Boston Police strike of 1919.

1924

Levine's first formal artistic education was studying with artist and art educator Harold K. Zimmerman at the Jewish Welfare Center in Roxbury from 1924 to 1931.

Another one of Zimmerman's young art students was Hyman Bloom.

1929

From 1929 to 1933, Levine and Bloom studied with Denman Ross at Harvard University.

As an adolescent, Levine was already, by his own account, "a formidable draftsman".

Ross sponsored Bloom and Levine's studies via a weekly stipend, as well as studio space.

1932

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.

1935

From 1935 to 1940, he was employed by the Works Progress Administration.

1936

In 1936, Levine had his first exhibition of paintings in New York City in New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art.

The paintings selected for the exhibition were Card Game and Brain Trust, the latter was painted from his observation of life in the Boston Common.

1937

In 1937, his The Feast of Pure Reason, a satire of Boston political power, was placed on loan to the Museum of Modern Art.

1939

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

1942

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.

From 1942-45, Levine served in the United States Army during World War II.

1945

Levine was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.

1946

Upon his discharge from service he painted Welcome Home (1946), a lampoon of the arrogance of military power.

1950

Also in the late 1950s, Levine painted a series of sensitive portraits of his wife and daughter.

1951

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 to the United States, Levine continued to paint biblical subjects, and also produced Gangster Funeral, a narrative which Levine referred to as a "comedy".

1954

Further commentary on American life was furnished by Election Night (1954), Inauguration (1958), and Thirty- Five Minutes from Times Square (1956).

1959

In 1959, the painting would engender political controversy when it was included in the American National Exhibition in Moscow, raising suspicions in the House Un-American Activities Committee of pro-Communist sympathies.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower called the painting "more lampoon than art."

1960

In the 1960s, he responded not only to social unrest in the United States with works such as Birmingham '63 (1963), but to international subjects as well, as in The Spanish Prison (1959–1962), Panethnikon (1978), and The Arms Brokers (1982–83).

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.

1973

In 1973 the Vatican purchased Cain and Abel (1961), to the satisfaction of Pope Paul VI.

1978

In 1978, a retrospective of Levine's work was held at the Jewish Museum (New York).

1979

In 1979 Levine was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1982.

1982

Following the death of his wife in the 1982, he developed an increased interest in Hebraism, and with it a proliferation of paintings with themes from the Hebrew Bible.

Levine's work is featured in many public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 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.

1989

He was the subject of a 1989 film documentary entitled Feast of Pure Reason.

2005

In 2005, at the age of 90, Levine was given a mini-retrospective exhibition at DC Moore Gallery in New York City.