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,
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Leonard Baskin is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Painters of Nudes
Sculptors
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