a) Self Portrait, LB AET 30; b) Ex-Libris for Bennett and Doris Schiff; c) Still Life from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959
1953 (published 1961)
Artist, American, 1922 - 2000
Publisher
Leonard Baskin
Artwork overview
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Medium
a) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper b) wood engraving in black and red on Mokuroku wove paper c) wood engraving on Mokuroku wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (a): 5 × 3.9 cm (1 15/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
image (b): 6.8 × 4 cm (2 11/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
image (c): 5.4 × 7.5 cm (2 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
sheet: 43 × 44.2 cm (16 15/16 × 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1964.8.223.27.a-c
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Catalogue Raisonné
Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, a) no. 226; b) no. 220; c) no. 227
Associated Artworks
See all 68 artworksThe Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin 1948-1959
Leonard Baskin, Gehenna Press
1961
a) 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
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. 226.
Inscriptions
a) "LB AET 30" lower right composition, in block. "86" lower center margin, grey ink.
b) "BENNETT & DORIS SCHIFF" lower composition, in block. "87" lower center margin, grey ink.
c) "88" lower center margin, grey ink.
Markings
"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
[three leaves]
Wikidata ID
Q65510790