Description: Leonard Baskin (American 1922-2000) Lessons in Far Future, 1978Etching on ivory wove paperImage: 15.24 × 15.24 cm (6 × 6 in.)Sheet: 38.1 × 28.89 cm (15 × 11 3/8 in.)lower center in plate (vertical): Baskin 1978; lower left in graphite: from edition 125; lower right in graphite: Baskintext in plate: LESSONS IN FAR FVTVRE. / SEE ONE / WHO WEARS NOT / THIS DECADE'S / CLOTHING . NOW QUIET / HVMANS HERD / ESTABLISH TERRITORIES / DEFEND WITH BOMBS / ENJOY {FOR] WAGES] / THE ELECTROCHEMICAL / SATIETY OF NEED. / THE POSSESSED WEAR / BANAL ET WASTED / SYMBOLS / THIS ONE IS AN ARTIST. / TOBIAS BASKIN 1978Fern, Alan, and Judith O'Sullivan. The Complete Prints of Leonard Baskin: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1983. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1984, no. 671.Another impression is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Accession Number 2013.121.130 From AskArt, A highly respected draftsman, printmaker, teacher, and sculptor, Leonard Baskin had the ability to depict in an abstract style man and his relation to the world. Whether working with bronze or wood or two-dimensional mediums, his focus remained on large heroic, but flawed human beings who at times recall photographic images of concentration-camp victims or birds with human bodies that suggest mythological forms. 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. In style these works are closest to German Die Brucke prints. At this time he studied abroad at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence. During this period, he got extensive familiarization with the Great European Collections, many which helped release in him the sculptural images he has since used. For many years, he was a professor of sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Artist: Leonard Baskin
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1978
Signed: Yes
Theme: People
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Framing: Framed
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Production Technique: Etching
Subject: Men
Time Period Produced: 1970-1979
