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Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000)
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Leonard Baskin
Becker (Green Chine - Semblant Series)
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Leonard Baskin
Prarie Turtle (Native American II, New Series) 1993
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Leonard Baskin
The Raptors, No. 15 1984
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Leonard Baskin
White Buffalo (Native American II, New Series) 1993
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Biography |
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1922 |
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Born August 15, New Brunswick, NY |
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1929 - 1938 |
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Studied at Yeshiva, Brooklyn, NY |
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1939 - 1940 |
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Studied at New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts |
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1941 - 1943 |
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Scholarship, Yale University School of Fine Arts New Haven, CT |
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1943 - 1946 |
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Served in the United States Navy |
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1949 |
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BA, New School for Social Research New York, NY |
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1950 |
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Studied Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France |
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1951 |
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Studied Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence |
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1966 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The New School New York, NY |
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1973 |
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Skowhegan Gold Medal for Graphics Skowhegan, ME |
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1985 |
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Honorary DFA, Portland School of Art Portland, OR |
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1987 |
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Honorary LHD, University of Judaism Los Angeles, CA |
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1997 |
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Honorary Degree, Springfield College Springfield, MA |
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2000 |
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Died |
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Honors & Awards
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Honorable mention for sculpture, Prix de Rome, 1940 |
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Tiffany Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture, 1947; |
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Guggenheim Fellowship, 1953 |
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Ohara Prize, National Museum of Tokyo, 1954 |
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National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant, 1961 |
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Mather Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961 |
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Widener Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1965 |
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Special Medal of Merit, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1965 |
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Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1969 |
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Cultural Achievement in the Arts Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1995 |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"NaturPapier," KunsGarten, Graz |
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2007 |
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"Graphic Force, Humanist Vision," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)
"Madea and Her Sisters: Leonard Baskin's Images of Women," Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (solo)
"Clear Cut," Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
"Art Inspires Music: Interdisciplinary Gallery Project 3," ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
"Framed: The Art of the Portrait," Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON |
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2006 |
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"Leonard Baskin: Portrait Prints and the Gehenna Press," Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN (solo)
"More than Coffee was Served," Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY
'New Acquisitions: Prints," ASU Art Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
"Spotlight," Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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2005 |
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"Currents: Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Prints," Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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2004 |
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"Leonard Baskin: Creatures of Darkness," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC (solo)
"Leonard Baskin: Two Portfolios," Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (solo)
"Objects of Our Desire: Sculpture from the Sheldon," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE |
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2003 |
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"DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil Stone," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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2002 |
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"Images of Nature," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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2001 |
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"Leonard Baskin," McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON (solo)
"The Modern Woodcut," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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2000 |
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"Leonard Baskin: Monumental Prints," The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1998 |
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"Leonard Baskin: 1947-1998," Hunter Museum of Art Chattanooga, TN |
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1994 |
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"Caprices, Grotesques and Homages: Leonard Baskin and The Gehenna Press," Library of Congress Washington, DC |
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1991 |
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Angels to the Jews," Midtown Payson Gallery New York, NY |
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1984 |
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"The Albertina Vienna, Austria |
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1970 |
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National Museum of American Art/The Smithsonian Washington, DC |
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1968 - 1969 |
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XXXIV International Bienniel Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy |
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1962 |
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The Royal Watercolour Society/St. George's Gallery London, England |
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1958 |
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Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA |
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1939 |
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Glickman Studio Gallery New York, NY |
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