Notes
1. Jack Levine, interview by the author, New York City, April 17, 2004.
2. Davidson, Martha, “Levine: Epic Painting in a First One-man Showing,” Art News 37 (01 1939): 12.
3. Farber, Manny, “Jack Levine,” Art News 54 (03 1955): 33.
4. Donovan, Robert J., “President Is Critical of Art for Moscow,” New York Herald Tribune, 07 2, 1959, 6.
5. Art Digest 11 (10 1, 1936): cover page; and Mumford, Lewis, “The Art Galleries,” New Yorker 10 (10 10, 1936): 23.
6. “Twelve,” Time 30 (10 18, 1937): 37.
7. Davidson, , “Levine: Epic Painting,” 12.
8. Donovan, , “President Is Critical,” 33.
9. Kramer, Hilton, “Bloom and Levine: The Hazards of Modern Painting,” Commentary 19 (06 1955): 583.
10. Boswell, Peyton, Modern American Painting (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939), 11, 69.
14. Hunter, Sam, Modern American Painting and Sculpture (New York: Dell 1959), 160.
19. Quoted in Lynes, Russel, Good Old Modern: An Intimate Portrait of the Museum of Modern Art (New York: Athenaeum, 1973), 250.
21. Jack Levine, interview by the author, New York City, April 17, 2004.
22. Ibid. When asked by this author if the artist did not appreciate the monumental works of Jackson Pollock, he replied sardonically, “Look, I didn't accept Jesus Christ and I don't have to accept Jackson Pollock.”
23. Cockcroft, Eva, “Abstract Expressionism, Weapon of the Cold War,” Artforum 12 (06 1974): 39. This cold war thesis is expanded on by Guilbaut, Serge in How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), and most recently and exhaustively by Saunders, Frances Stoner in Who Paid the Piper: The Cultural Cold War and the World of Arts and Letters (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999).
24. Kozloff, Max, “American Painting During the Cold War,” Artforum 11 (05 1973):45.
26. Mecklenberg, Virginia, “A Controversy in Style,” in Advancing American Art (Montgomery, Ala.: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1984), 35.
28. Hauptman, William, “The Suppression of Art in the McCarthy Decade,” Artforum 73 (10 1973): 48.
29. “Your Money Bought These Paintings,” Look 29 (02 18, 1947), 80–81; and “It's Striking, But Is It Art or Extravagance?” Newsweek 30 (08 25, 1947): 17.
30. Quoted in Hauptman, , “Suppression of Art,” 49.
31. Dame, Lawrence, “Moderns Protest,” Art Digest 22 (04 1948): 33.
32. Hauptman, , “Suppression of Art,” 50.
33. Barr, Alfred, “Is Modern Art Communistic?” New York Times Magazine, 12 14, 1951, 22.
34. Cockcroft, , “Abstract Expressionism,” 38.
35. De Hart Matthews, Jane, “Art and Politics in Cold War America,” American Historical Review 81 (10 1976): 778.
36. Jack Levine, interview by the author, New York City, July 23, 2004.
37. Donovan, , “President Is Critical,” 6.
38. Jack Levine, interview by the author, New York City, July 23, 2004.
