Beatitude

1955

Leonard Baskin after Ben Shahn

Associated Names
Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

Ben Shahn

Artist After, American, 1898 - 1969

The image shows bold, black lines forming an abstract human figure leaning over in a field. The lines create shapes resembling a face and body emerging from vertical lines resembling grass. Abstract patches of black and yellow suggest foliage or clouds behind the figure.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving with color linocut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.4 × 37.8 cm (10 × 14 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 37.47 × 53.34 cm (14 3/4 × 21 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1958.8.152

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 251

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1973

  • Prescott, Kenneth W. The Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1973, no. 21.

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. 251.

Wikidata ID

Q65361218

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