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Leonard Baskin

The Hydrogen Man, 1954

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 158.1 × 61.9 cm (62 1/4 × 24 3/8 in.)

sheet: 223.5 x 101.6 cm (88 x 40 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 249

Accession Number

1981.20.1

Artists / Makers

Leonard Baskin (artist) American, 1922 - 2000

Leonard Baskin (printer) American, 1922 - 2000

Leonard Baskin (publisher) American, 1922 - 2000

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Inscription

lower left in block: B / F; lower right in graphite: Baskin

Exhibition History

1981: Contemporary American Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981, unnumbered brochure.

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 2016-2017, no. 119.

2024: The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

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. 249.

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