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Leonard BaskinThe Owl that calls upon the Night speaks the Unbeliever's ...1968
1968
$750
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About the Item
This artwork titled "The Owl that calls upon the Night speaks the Unbeliever's" 1968 is an original woodcut on Makuroko paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The block mark (image) size is 4.75 x 3.30 inches, framed size is 14.5 x 12.5 inches. Published by Gehenna Press, Massachusetts. Referenced in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Fern and O'Sullivan, plate #725. An example of this particular work is held in many museums, including: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, The Portland Museum Of Art, Portland, The Cleveland Museum Of Art, Cleveland. and the National Gallery Of Art, Washington DC. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with off-white matting. It is in excellent condition,
About the artist.
A highly respected draftsman, print maker, teacher, and sculptor, Leonard Baskin had the ability to depict in an abstract style man and his relation to the world. Whether working with bronze or wood or two-dimensional mediums, his focus remained on large heroic, but flawed human beings who at times recall photographic images of concentration-camp victims or birds with human bodies that suggest mythological forms.
Born in 1922 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Baskin studied sculpture with Maurice Glickman at the Educational Alliance, New York City, from 1937 to 1943. He had many influences at that time including Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens, and Alexander Archipenko.
In 1949, he began to make wood engravings, and his attitude toward the nature of man grew more generalized, but no less moralistic or didactic. In style these works are closest to German Die Brucke prints.
For many years, he was a professor of sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Baskin was particularly noted for his memorials, including the Holocaust Memorial (dedicated 1994) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, which features a 7-foot (2.1-metre) figure, seated and in anguish with a hand raised above the head. In his woodcuts Baskin developed a distinctively wiry and nervous linearity. Man of Peace (1952) and Everyman (1960) are among his best-known woodcuts.Among his numerous honours, Baskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1963, and in 1969 he received that academy’s Gold Medal. He also was awarded the Sculpture (1988) and Gold (1989) medals of the National Academy of Design. In addition, Hosie’s Alphabet (1972), which he illustrated and cowrote, was named a Cal Baskin’s sculpture, watercolors, and prints are in the permanent collections of most of the world’s major art galleries and museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vatican Museum, the Smithsonian Institute and the Tate Gallery in London. He died June 3, 2000 in Northampton, Massachusetts,
- Creator:Leonard Baskin (1922-2000, American)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 12.5 in (31.75 cm)Depth: 0.6 in (1.53 cm)
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- Gallery Location:San Francisco, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: baskin/owl/011stDibs: LU666317184992
Leonard Baskin
LEONARD BASKIN Born 1922, New Jersey; died 2000. Leonard Baskin was born the son of a Rabbi. He was educated in art at the New School for Social Research in New York City and at Yale University. Baskin regarded himself primarily as a sculptor, though he also excelled in printmaking, watercolor, and painting. The artist's mostly figurative work was at odds with much of the art making of his generation, but it nonetheless earned an impressive following. Baskin is widely regarded as one of the foremost American sculptors of the twentieth century. Boldly embracing political and social issues, he made art that he felt could affect individuals profoundly at both a personal and archetypal level. He also ran a printing press, and his artist books are considered some of the most impressive in the medium. Baskin's sculptures, books, and works on paper are found in most serious and important public and private collections in the world including the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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