The Poet Laureate, 1955

Not on View

Medium

woodcut in black on linen-backed wove paper

Dimensions

image: 58.5 × 122 cm (23 1/16 × 48 1/16 in.)

sheet: 95.4 x 132.5 cm (37 9/16 x 52 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 257

Accession Number

1964.8.220

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Image Use

lower left in graphite: Poet Laureate edition 25; lower right in graphite: Leonard Baskin

stamped lower right verso in black ink: 73 [circled]

Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; acquired 1964 by the National Gallery of Art

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 257.