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Press Release
Reviewed in Newcity
On view: November 15, 2024 - May 23, 2025
Installation view. Image courtesy of Madron Gallery.
Jack Levine (1915-2010), Shammai, 1976, oil on Masonite, 19 7/8 x 16 inches
Shammai is one of the paintings in Levine’s series of Jewish kings and sages of yore. It was a complex tribute to pay to his father’s legacy and religious beliefs—the Second Commandment prohibits the creation of “graven images,” but the Fifth asks children to honor their parents, and Levine’s parents had fully encouraged this artistic path he’d chosen, giving him the very tools to make those graven images to begin with. Levine knew because of that Second Commandment that there was “a relatively sparse pictorial record of Jewish history or the Jewish imagination.” This knowledge gave him a newfound clarity of aim: “I felt the desire to fill this gap.”
Learn more about Jack Levine and Shammai here.
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