Leo Meissner

Hannah

1945, about

This is an original gallery show poster the Boris Mirsky Gallery, Newbury St. Boston. titled Sculpture Prints Drawings. It is dated 1962. it is in red and black. Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher. Baskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. The McMaster Museum of Art in Hamilton, Ontario owns over 200 of his works (some religious and biblical), most of which were donated by his brother Rabbi Bernard Baskin. In 1955, he was one of eleven New York artists featured in the opening exhibition at the Terrain Gallery, they showed many great artists, Chaim Koppelman, for many years, headed the gallery's Print Division; printmakers such as Will Barnet, Leonard Baskin, Robert Conover...

This artwork titled "Amos" 1960 is an original woodcut on paper by noted American artist Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 35/50in pencil by the artis...

Kabuki actor is aWoodcut print realized in the early 20th Century after Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print, included a cardboard passpartout. I...

Oriental figures is an original modern artwork realized after Katsushika Hokusai in the late 19th Century. Black and white woodcut print. Includes a gilded frame.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Sumo Tournament is a Woodcut print realized in the first half of the 19th century by Utagawa Kunisada. Good condition and Beautiful colored woodblock print. This wonderful modern artwork represents Japanese Sumo...