a) Blind Man; b) Three Blind Men; c) Ex-Libris for Molly and Bill Esty; d) Dead Bird; e) Pomegranate; f) Ex-Libris for Richard G. Dick; g) Mark for Hyman Swetzoff from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959, 1952 (published 1961)

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portfolio Title

The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959

Medium

a) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper b) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper c) wood engraving in red and black on Mokuroku wove paper d) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper e) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper f) wood engraving in red and black on Mokuroku wove paper g) wood engraving in green on Mokuroku wove paper

Dimensions

image (a): 4.8 × 3.4 cm (1 7/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (b): 4 × 5 cm (1 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
image (c): 6.9 × 3.4 cm (2 11/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (d): 3.2 × 5.6 cm (1 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
image (e): 1.5 × 2.5 cm (9/16 × 1 in.)
image (f): 6 × 3.3 cm (2 3/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (g): 2.9 × 1.6 cm (1 1/8 × 5/8 in.)

sheet: 43 × 44.3 cm (16 15/16 × 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 144; b) no. 213; c) no. 164; d) no. 161; e) no. 189; f) no. 165; g) no. 182

Accession Number

1964.8.223.13.a-g

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Gehenna Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

a) "48" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "49" lower center margin, grey ink.
c) "MOLLY & BILL ESTY" lower center composition, black ink. "50" lower center margin, grey ink.
d) "51" lower center margin, grey ink.
e) "52" lower center margin, grey ink.
f) "LABORA ET ORA" upper center composition, red ink. "RICHARD G. DICK" lower center composition, red ink. "53" lower center margin, grey ink.
g) "54" lower center margin, grey ink.
"48-49-50-51-52-53-54" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Bibliography

1984: Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 144.