Jack Levine
1915 - 2010
Jack Levine is an American Social Realist painter and printmaker
best known for his satires on modern life, political corruption,
and biblical narratives.
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.[11] In 1978 a retrospective of
Levine's work was held at the Jewish Museum in New York.