1. Jack Levine was an American Social Realist painter and printmaker best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption, and biblical narratives.
13 Facts About Jack Levine
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Jack Levine was the eighth child born to Samuel and Mary Levine, Lithuanian Jewish immigrants.
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Jack 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.
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Jack Levine's mother encouraged him to draw and stored his art materials in the family kitchen.
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In 1936, Jack Levine had his first exhibition of paintings in New York City in New Horizons in American Art at the Museum of Modern Art.
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Jack Levine was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1945.
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Also in the late 1950s, Jack Levine painted a series of sensitive portraits of his wife and daughter.
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In 1979 Jack Levine was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1982.
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Jack 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.
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In 1978, a retrospective of Jack Levine's work was held at the Jewish Museum.
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Jack Levine was the subject of a 1989 film documentary entitled Feast of Pure Reason.
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In 2005, at the age of 90, Jack Levine was given a mini-retrospective exhibition at DC Moore Gallery in New York City.
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Jack Levine died at his home in Manhattan, New York on November 8,2010, at the age of 95.