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Negro Head

Artist: Harry Levine, American, born Russia, 1893-1945
Medium: Lignum vitae (wood)
Dates: n.d.
Dimensions: With Base: 18 x 5 5/8 x 7 3/4 in. (45.7 x 14.3 x 19.7 cm) Base only: 6 7/8 x 5 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. (17.5 x 14.3 x 14.3 cm)
Signature: Unsigned
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
Accession Number: 45.67.1
Credit Line: Gift of the Educational Alliance Art School
Image: Overall, 45.67.1_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Carved head of black man with close-cropped hair, heavy-lidded eyes with pupils bored out, small flat nose, full lips, wrinkle outlines mouth, furrowed brow (wrinkles in forehead), wrinkles in neck; head attached to simple squared pilaster base. Condition: Good; few vertical cracks in wood; reddish triangular section at back of head.

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