a) Owl; b) Owl from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959, 1959 (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 in black and red on Mokuroku wove paper

Dimensions

image (a): 4.1 × 5.4 cm (1 5/8 × 2 1/8 in.)
image (b): 4.7 × 3.3 cm (1 7/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

sheet: 43 × 44.4 cm (16 15/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 386; b) no. 380

Accession Number

1964.8.223.61.a-b

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Gehenna Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

a) "ELB" lower left margin, black ink. "WR" lower right margin, black ink. "175" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "R W" upper composition, red ink. "E L B" lower composition, red ink. "176" lower center margin, grey ink.

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. 386.