Levine (Jack) is born in the South End.

The son of son of Lithuanian immigrants, Jack Levine is born at 34 Rose Street, grows up in Roxbury, studies at the South End Union, works for the Works Progress Administration (1935-39), and becomes a member of the Boston Expressionist School. The political messages in his work prompt the Boston Herald to subsequently write, “Out of the South End’s squalid alleys, and mean streets, painter Jack Levine has come brandishing brush and palate like lance and buckler at the ills of society.” Levine serves in the U.S. Army during World War II, moves to New York City in 1946,* and becomes an internationally-regarded painter and teacher. He dies in New York on November 8, 2010.