Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Baskin, Leonard |
Title |
Agonized |
Medium |
Woodcut on paper, edition of 25 |
Date |
1969 |
Description |
Leonard Baskin (New Brunswick, New Jersey 1922-2000 North Hampton, Massachusetts) Agonized, 1969 Woodcut on paper, edition of 25 23 1/8 x 29 1/2 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1995 gift of Mary Ewing Leonard Baskin is most well known for his prints and his sculptures. His 30-foot bas relief of Roosevelt's funeral cortege is part of the 1997 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, DC. After attending New York University, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, in 1941 Baskin won a scholarship to Yale University, School of Fine Arts. In 1951 he became an instructor in printmaking at the Worcester Art Museum, MA. From 1953 to 1974 Baskin taught art at Smith College, Northampton, and later taught at Hampshire College, Amherst 1984-94. Throughout his teaching career he continued to produce his own sculpture and graphic arts at his studio in Leeds, and ran a small art press, Gehenna Press, which he had started at Yale in 1942. This woodcut on paper is an excellent representation of his bold style. |
Catalog Number |
1995.07.01 |
Search Terms |
Woodcuts Portrait prints Portraits Prints Paper |
Credit line |
Gift of Mary Ewing |