"My goal … not to go back to Rembrandt … but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date."
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Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.
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Jack Levine
Jack Levine (January 3, 1915 – November 8, 2010) was an American expressionist painter best known for his satires of modern life in the United States. He was a part of the Social Realism school in the 1930s.
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