Title: Thistle Ornament.
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)
Medium: Color woodcut, undated.
Edition 80.
Signed in pencil. Inscribed "Artist's proof."
Image size 32 x 23 1/4" (81.2 x 59.1 cm).

A highly known draftsman, printmaker and sculptor, Leonard Baskin had the ability to depict, in an abstract style, man and his relation to the world. Whether working with bronze, wood or two-dimensional mediums, his focus remained on large heroic, but flawed human beings. Born in 1922 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Baskin studied sculpture with Maurice Glickman at the Educational Alliance, New York City, from 1937 to 1943. He had many influences at that time including Ossip Zadkine, Henri Laurens, and Alexander Archipenko. In 1949, he began to make wood engravings, and his attitude toward the nature of man grew more generalized, but no less moralistic or didactic. He studied abroad for a time at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere in Paris and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He taught sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for many years.

Condition: Good condition, some creasing in the upper left corner.