BASKIN, Leonard. Anatomist . Color woodcut, titled, signed and designated "artist proof" in pencil. Sheet size 40 x 23¾ inches, image 18¾ x 10¾ inches.
BASKIN, Leonard. Anatomist . Color woodcut, titled, signed and designated "artist proof" in pencil. Sheet size 40 x 23¾ inches, image 18¾ x 10¾ inches. A powerful expression, early in Baskin's career, of his enduring interest in anatomy and in the anatomists who studied and taught this subject. Dale Roylance, former Curator of Graphic Arts at Yale, once said that Baskin's "great fascination with historical anatomy books is evident in his extensive collection of these atlases, and his almost antiquarian expertise of such books. In his art, the flayed anatomy has become like a Baskin signature. As early as 1952 his woodcuts begin to take on a texture of vivisection." The son of a Rabbi, Baskin received his early education at a yeshiva, which had a profound effect on his aesthetic. Committed to art at an early age, he had his first exhibition of sculpture at the age of seventeen. Baskin studied at Yale from 1941 to 1943, served in the navy during the last years of World War II, worked for a time in the merchant marine, and returned to New York where he graduated from the New School in 1949. He spent 1950 and 1951 studying in Paris and Florence. In 1953 he began teaching printmaking and sculpture at Smith College, where he remained until 1974. While he was at Smith Baskin founded the Gehenna Press, a small private press that primarily published limited editions of his own work. From 1984 to 1994 he taught at Hampshire College. When he was young Baskin became intrigued by Greek history, philosophy and mythology, and this study inspired many of his sculptures and paintings. Other influences were early late 19th and 20th century sculptors, Rodin, Manzu, and especially Ernst Barlach Baskin worked in several media: he was an outstanding sculptor, and a writer and illustrator of books ranging from the bible and the Haggadah to children's' stories and natural history. He was also a fine painter of watercolors, and a superb print-maker. His prints included woodcuts, lithographs and etchings. Baskin's works are in the world's leading museums. Among Baskin's many commissions were the thirty-foot bas relief he sculpted for Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Holocaust Memorial statue erected on the site of the first Jewish cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Baskin won many awards including the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, the Special Medal of Merit of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Design. Fern & O'Sullivan, The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin (1984) 143. [ With: ] BASKIN, L. Ars Anatomica . New York: Medinica Rara, 1972. 2 o. 2 suites of 13 plates (plate 13 from second suite with tape repair). Loose as issued in leather, cloth, and wood boxed portfolio; board slipcase, paper label. LIMITED EDITION, number XLIII of 300 copies from a total edition of 2800 signed by Baskin. This portfolio was the first, and possibly the only anatomical atlas by a renowned artist published in the 20th century. In the thirteen images of this tribute to the great anatomical atlases of the past, Baskin made allusions to some of the classic original works present in the Edell collection, such as Bidloo. Baskin had a personal collection of historic artistic anatomies, of which the Edell copy of Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomie de la Tête (1748) bound with Anatomie Générale (1754) was once a part.
BASKIN, Leonard. Anatomist . Color woodcut, titled, signed and designated "artist proof" in pencil. Sheet size 40 x 23¾ inches, image 18¾ x 10¾ inches.
BASKIN, Leonard. Anatomist . Color woodcut, titled, signed and designated "artist proof" in pencil. Sheet size 40 x 23¾ inches, image 18¾ x 10¾ inches. A powerful expression, early in Baskin's career, of his enduring interest in anatomy and in the anatomists who studied and taught this subject. Dale Roylance, former Curator of Graphic Arts at Yale, once said that Baskin's "great fascination with historical anatomy books is evident in his extensive collection of these atlases, and his almost antiquarian expertise of such books. In his art, the flayed anatomy has become like a Baskin signature. As early as 1952 his woodcuts begin to take on a texture of vivisection." The son of a Rabbi, Baskin received his early education at a yeshiva, which had a profound effect on his aesthetic. Committed to art at an early age, he had his first exhibition of sculpture at the age of seventeen. Baskin studied at Yale from 1941 to 1943, served in the navy during the last years of World War II, worked for a time in the merchant marine, and returned to New York where he graduated from the New School in 1949. He spent 1950 and 1951 studying in Paris and Florence. In 1953 he began teaching printmaking and sculpture at Smith College, where he remained until 1974. While he was at Smith Baskin founded the Gehenna Press, a small private press that primarily published limited editions of his own work. From 1984 to 1994 he taught at Hampshire College. When he was young Baskin became intrigued by Greek history, philosophy and mythology, and this study inspired many of his sculptures and paintings. Other influences were early late 19th and 20th century sculptors, Rodin, Manzu, and especially Ernst Barlach Baskin worked in several media: he was an outstanding sculptor, and a writer and illustrator of books ranging from the bible and the Haggadah to children's' stories and natural history. He was also a fine painter of watercolors, and a superb print-maker. His prints included woodcuts, lithographs and etchings. Baskin's works are in the world's leading museums. Among Baskin's many commissions were the thirty-foot bas relief he sculpted for Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Holocaust Memorial statue erected on the site of the first Jewish cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Baskin won many awards including the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, the Special Medal of Merit of the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Design. Fern & O'Sullivan, The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin (1984) 143. [ With: ] BASKIN, L. Ars Anatomica . New York: Medinica Rara, 1972. 2 o. 2 suites of 13 plates (plate 13 from second suite with tape repair). Loose as issued in leather, cloth, and wood boxed portfolio; board slipcase, paper label. LIMITED EDITION, number XLIII of 300 copies from a total edition of 2800 signed by Baskin. This portfolio was the first, and possibly the only anatomical atlas by a renowned artist published in the 20th century. In the thirteen images of this tribute to the great anatomical atlases of the past, Baskin made allusions to some of the classic original works present in the Edell collection, such as Bidloo. Baskin had a personal collection of historic artistic anatomies, of which the Edell copy of Gautier d'Agoty's Anatomie de la Tête (1748) bound with Anatomie Générale (1754) was once a part.
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