a) Fly; b) Peacock; c) Porcupine; d) Hyena; e) Barracuda; f) Mouse from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959, 1951 (published 1961)

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portfolio Title

The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959

Medium

a) linocut on Mokuroku wove paper b) linocut on Mokuroku wove paper c) linocut on Mokuroku wove paper d) linocut in red on Mokuroku wove paper e) linocut on Mokuroku wove paper f) linocut on Mokuroku wove paper

Dimensions

image (a): 7.5 × 7.5 cm (2 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
image (b): 7.5 × 7.3 cm (2 15/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
image (c): 7.3 × 9.5 cm (2 7/8 × 3 3/4 in.)
image (d): 7.5 × 10 cm (2 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
image (e): 3.8 × 13 cm (1 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
image (f): 4.3 × 6.6 cm (1 11/16 × 2 5/8 in.)

sheet: 43 × 44.3 cm (16 15/16 × 17 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 106; b) no. 115; c) no. 116; d) no. 108; e) no. 98; f) no. 113

Accession Number

1964.8.223.8.a-f

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Gehenna Press (publisher)

Image Use

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Inscription

a) "22" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "23" lower center margin, grey ink.
c) "24" lower center margin, grey ink.
d) "25" lower center margin, grey ink.
e) "26" lower center margin, grey ink.
f) "27" lower center margin, grey ink.
"22-23-24-25-26-27" lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

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. 106.