New York University Yale University The New School (BA) Académie de la Grande Chaumière Accademia di Belle Arti
Known for
Sculpture, book illustration, printmaking, graphic design, founder of the Gehenna Press
Movement
Boston Expressionism
Awards
Prix de Rome, Gold Medal of The American Academy of Arts and Letters, Special Medal of Merit of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Gold Medal of the National Academy of Design, Widener Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art
Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world", often featuring the work of celebrated poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold, stark, energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints.[1] Called a "Sculptor of Stark Memorials" by the New York Times, Baskin is also known for his wood, limestone, bronze, and large-scale woodblock prints, which ranged from naturalistic to fanciful, and were frequently grotesque, featuring bloated figures or humans merging with animals.[2] "His monumental bronze sculpture, The Funeral Cortege, graces the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C."[3]
^Barnes, Bart (June 6, 2000). "Sculptor, Graphic Artist Leonard Baskin, 77, Dies". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
^Roberta Smith (June 6, 2000). "Leonard Baskin Dies at 77; Sculptor of Stark Memorials". The New York Times. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
^"Leonard Baskin Biography | Annex Galleries". Annex Galleries: 19th, 20th & 21st Century Fine Prints. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
LeonardBaskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000)...
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the United States. Established in 1942 by sculptor and graphic artist LeonardBaskin (1922-2000) while still a student at Yale, the award-winning press went...
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as well as his treatment of her as a "housekeeper". In his letter to LeonardBaskin on 16 July 1969, Hughes references Shura, his daughter with Wevill....
1509/jmr.14.0020. ISSN 0022-2437. S2CID 42112659. Frederick, Shane; Lee, Leonard; Baskin, Ernest (2014). "The Limits of Attraction". Journal of Marketing Research...
1553. 4.2 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Gift of Lisa and LeonardBaskin. Caves of Hercules Dollar sign Latin: Columnae Herculis Ancient Greek:...
from 1878 to 1881. Newton Arvin, American literary critic and academic LeonardBaskin, an artist who taught at Smith from 1953 to 1974 Mary Ellen Chase, educator...
John Walker United States: Ivan Albright, David Aronson, Milton Avery, LeonardBaskin, George Biddle, Hyman Bloom, Peter Blume, Charles Burchfield, David...
into graphic design, Jewish names and themes become more prominent: LeonardBaskin, Al Hirschfeld, Peter Max, Ben Shahn, Art Spiegelman and Saul Steinberg...
(born 1938), Germany Marie Bashkirtseff (1860–1884), Ukraine/France LeonardBaskin (1922–2000), US Harry Bates (1850–1899), England Edith Bateson (1867–1938)...
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at Smith College, Hannock caught the eye of sculptor and printmaker LeonardBaskin with whom he apprenticed for several years creating anatomical drawings...
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Paul Jenkins, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, LeonardBaskin, Robert Indiana, Lee Bontecou, Ad Reinhardt, Jack Youngerman, Stuart...
international art shows following this threatened boycott. 34th 1968 LeonardBaskin, Edwin Dickinson, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, James McGarrell, Reuben...
the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He studied printmaking with LeonardBaskin. Moser is known for his illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures...
Garo Antreasian of the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. LeonardBaskin of The Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts. Robert Blackburn of...
engravers have begun to use lasers to engrave wood. Joseph Alexander Adams LeonardBaskin Elisa Berroeta Thomas Bewick Torsten Billman James Bostock (painter)...
Angeles Gehenna Press, founded 1942 by LeonardBaskin (1922–2000) in New Haven, Connecticut; in the late 1940s, Baskin moved it to Northampton, Massachusetts...
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