Untitled (Angry, And Temper Causes Boy To Loose His Life...)

Arts of the Americas

1953–83

Jesse Howard (American, 1885–1983)

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Jesse Howard
Title: Untitled (Angry, And Temper Causes Boy To Loose His Life...)
Place: Fulton (Object made in:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Artist's working dates 1953–1983
Medium: Paint and graphite on wood
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, top-left through bottom right, in black paint: "ANGRY,' AND TEMPER CAUSES BOY TO LOOSE / HIS [right pointing hand] LIFE.IN-A CAR-ACCIDENT.' THIS 17. YEAR OLD BOY LOST / HIS LIFE,' AND MAYBE HIS SOUL. THERE HAS BEEN MANY-A-PERS - / ON THAT WHEN THE DEVIL TURNED LOOSE,' THAT WENT AWAY WITH / A SORE HEAD,' BLACK EYES,' OR A BROK-NOSE,' OR A SLIT / BELLY,' OR THROAT, HOLD - THAT TEMPER, DON'T LET IT FLY."
Dimensions: 25.1 × 134 × 2.1 cm (9 7/8 × 52 3/4 × 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Ellen Sandor
Reference Number: 2025.613

New Museum, In a Pictorial Framework: Story Mann, Finley Fryer, David Saunders, Phyllis Bramson, Gundersen Clark, exh. cat. (New Museum, 1979), 13, 47, no cat. no.

New York, New Museum, In a Pictorial Framework: Story Mann: Possumhead, June 30–July 21, 1979, no cat. no.

Story Mann, Brooklyn, NY, by 1979; [sold to] Richard and Ellen Sandor, Chicago, June 1981 [Sandor collection document; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2025.

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