Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Inauguration portrays the solemnity of the quadrennial ceremony in which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administers the oath of office to the nation’s president-elect. Levine identified the presidential figure as a combination of Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman, and Dwight Eisenhower, suggesting the continuity of the American democratic process.
- Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection, 2014
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Jack Levine, born Boston, MA 1915-died New York City 2010
- Date
- 1956-1958
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 72 x 63 in. (183.0 x 160.0 cm.)
- Type
- Painting
