a) Blind Man; b) Three Blind Men; c) Ex-Libris for Molly and Bill Esty; d) Dead Bird; e) Pomegranate; f) Ex-Libris for Richard G. Dick; g) Mark for Hyman Swetzoff from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959
1952 (published 1961)
Artist, American, 1922 - 2000
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
a) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper b) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper c) wood engraving in red and black on Mokuroku wove paper d) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper e) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper f) wood engraving in red and black on Mokuroku wove paper g) wood engraving in green on Mokuroku wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (a): 4.8 × 3.4 cm (1 7/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (b): 4 × 5 cm (1 9/16 × 1 15/16 in.)
image (c): 6.9 × 3.4 cm (2 11/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (d): 3.2 × 5.6 cm (1 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
image (e): 1.5 × 2.5 cm (9/16 × 1 in.)
image (f): 6 × 3.3 cm (2 3/8 × 1 5/16 in.)
image (g): 2.9 × 1.6 cm (1 1/8 × 5/8 in.)
sheet: 43 × 44.3 cm (16 15/16 × 17 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1964.8.223.13.a-g
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Catalogue Raisonné
Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 144; b) no. 213; c) no. 164; d) no. 161; e) no. 189; f) no. 165; g) no. 182
Associated Artworks
See all 67 artworksa) Page 3, from "A Poem Called the Tunning of Elynour Rummynge"; b) Page 15, from "A Poem Called the Tunning of Elynour Rummynge" from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959
Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press
1953
a) Ex-Libris for Cynthia and Paul Seton; b) Ex-Libris for Louis Black; c) Mark for Smith Glass and Mirror Company; d) Ex-Libris for Frederick Cleveland Mitchell; e) Ex-Libris for Dorothy King; f) Ex-Libris for Alex Page from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959
Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press
1959
Colophon
Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press
1959
Artwork history & notes
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. 144.
Inscriptions
a) "48" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "49" lower center margin, grey ink.
c) "MOLLY & BILL ESTY" lower center composition, black ink. "50" lower center margin, grey ink.
d) "51" lower center margin, grey ink.
e) "52" lower center margin, grey ink.
f) "LABORA ET ORA" upper center composition, red ink. "RICHARD G. DICK" lower center composition, red ink. "53" lower center margin, grey ink.
g) "54" lower center margin, grey ink.
"48-49-50-51-52-53-54" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
[three leaves]
Wikidata ID
Q65510752