Still Life

1953

Leonard Baskin

Associated Names
Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

The image features a detailed black and white illustration of various plants and flowers. The color palette is black ink on a light beige background. There is a large flower blossom on the left and other botanical elements such as leaves and stems on the right. Small objects like insects are also present. The illustration is centrally positioned with negative space around it.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    wood engraving in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jay Finkel

  • Dimensions

    image: 5.4 × 5.87 cm (2 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.72 × 28.26 cm (10 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.121.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 227

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jay Finkel, Washington, DC; acquired 2013 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 227.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Baskin

Wikidata ID

Q77005434

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