We began shooting our film on Jack’s 89th birthday, January 3, 2004. Our last shoot with Jack will be January 30, 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, when we will film him discussing his String Quartet, the painting that brought him to national prominence at the age of 22.

Then we begin to edit. And we need your help.

Since 1936, when the Museum of Modern Art included him in a group show, Jack Levine has been one of America’s major artists. When the reviews from his latest one-man show in New York, January, 2005 were published, Jack, who had just turned 90, scanned them and remarked, “Suddenly, I’m relevant again.”

The five-minute DVD we have made available on this site captures the essence of Jack’s life and his art: a passionate, though rueful, optimism for America, a fervor to see things made right. For 75 years it has kept him at his easel because, “Some things have to be said.”

We invite you to help preserve the legacy of one of our century’s major artists. All contributions will be tax deductible and administered by the Danforth Museum of Art in Framingham, MA.

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