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The Tailor (The Sorrowful Tailor)
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The Tailor (The Sorrowful Tailor)

Dateca. 1943
Maker Mervin Jules born Baltimore, MD, 1912; died Provincetown, MA,1994
Label TextJules depicted the plight of the poor and of working men. In the 1930s, New York gallery owner Hudson Walker commented on Jules’ unusually dark view of society and of life, for a man still so young. The Tailor is a classic example of the artist’s expression of feeling for a laborer’s sacrifice, in this case a life spent in the confines of a tailor’s shop, when an old man thinks back on the joyful freedom of his youth. Characteristic of Jules, the painting is tempera on artists’ board, its colors are somber, and its sinewy forms are appropriate to the expression of a man’s weakness and resignation.
Object number2011.21.1
Provenance[A.C.A. Gallery, New York, 1943]; sold to donor, 1943
Credit LineGift of Allan and Nenette Harvey
Dimensions18 1/2 x 12 in. (47 x 30.5 cm)
MediumTempera on composition board
Farmyard
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1976
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1967
Object number: 2014.25.56
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Jules Olitski
1966
Object number: 2014.25.57
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Mark Tobey
1946
Object number: 69.79
Photo: Scott Leen
Morris Graves
1944
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Mark Tobey
1942
Object number: 62.78
Vase
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1938
Object number: 39.44
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