Negro Head
Harry Levine
American Art
On View: Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor
MEDIUM
Lignum vitae (wood)
DATES
n.d.
DIMENSIONS
With Base: 18 × 5 5/8 × 7 3/4 in., 15 lb. (45.7 × 14.3 × 19.7 cm, 6.8kg)
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
ACCESSION NUMBER
45.67.1
CREDIT LINE
Gift of the Educational Alliance Art School
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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