The Poet Laureate

1955

Leonard Baskin

Artist, American, 1922 - 2000

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black on linen-backed wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.220

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 257

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania; acquired 1964 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. 257.

Inscriptions

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

Markings

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

Wikidata ID

Q65510699

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