Edward Calvert Preparing to Sacrifice a Lamb, Frederick Tathem, from a Little-Known Photograph, Francis Finch, Samuel Palmer When He First Met William Blake, Edward Calvert
Leonard Baskin
1956
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five wood engravings printed on smooth wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 34.29 × 27.62 cm (13 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jay Finkel
Accession Number
2013.121.29
About the Artist
Leonard Baskin
Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) was a towering figure in American art, renowned for his monumental sculptures, powerful woodcuts, and intricate book illustrations that grappled with the human condition's darker facets. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to a family of rabbis, he moved to Brooklyn's Jewish Orthodox Williamsburg neighborhood at age seven. Vowing to become a sculptor at 15, Baskin apprent...