Leonard Baskin - Fifteen Woodcuts

1928 COLOR LITHOGRAPH, one of Carlu’s most celebrated posters.

A classic Art Deco poster, showing cubist influences, by Jean Carlu, one of the early twentieth-century’...

Flower Is… “is one of Frank’s great books (which means it is one of the greatest of photobooks), demonstrating magisterially, as he himself says in the boo...

"The love that Americans poured out for the work and person of Ansel Adams during his old age, and that they have continued to express with undiminished enthusiasm since his death, i...

Grant, Ulysses S. Large Albumen Photograph Magnificent large albumen photograph of Ulysses S. grant by Abraham Bogardus. An unusually large late (circa 1880) photograph of Grant, post-presidency, in formal dress, sitting and in partial profile. Mounted on thick card with the photographer’s credit and address (“A. Bogardus / 872 Broadway, NY”) on matte below the photo. The photographer, Anthony Bogardus, was a photographic pioneer, described by the New York Times as “the best-known photographer in the United States” in his prime who took “the first photographs of Gen. Grant, Gen. Hancock, Samuel D. Morse, inventor of the telegraph; Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher and other equally well-known men.” The engravers Currier & Ives produced an engraving based on this photograph, calling it “the last and best taken of General Grant...

ABOUT Leonard Baskin American, 1922-2000 Frightened Old Man Signed and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil. Unframed. CREATOR Leonard Baskin, American. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1950. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Woodcut on Japanese rice paper. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Top corners bent and missing about an inch each. Lower left corner bent but intact. DIMENSIONS Mat: H 32.25 in. W 24.25 in., Image: H 30.75 in. x W 23.25 in. HISTORY Leonard Baskin was an American artist working in a range of media. Though Baskin primarily considered himself a sculptor, he remains best known for his expressive works on paper. Many of his prints and drawings served as preparatory studies for his imposing bronze and wood sculptures of animals...

Le Shoppe Too in Michigan is offering an intriguing woodcut titled De Gheyn by Leonard Baskin. Signed on the bottom right with an annotation of 4/50. Baskin was known for his portrait series of various famous artists and intellects. This specific portrait is depicting Jacob de Gheyn II, who a Dutch...

This etching by Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000) in entitled"Yom Kippur", ed. 16/150, numbered in pencil lower left. The etching is dated 1978. ***Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June...

Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000) "Ahab With Red Hat" original lithograph. Signed in the stone and dated 1970. Pulled directly from the original stone. Printed on fine rag paper at the Ba...