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Biography
1922
Born August 15, New Brunswick, NY
1929 - 1938
Studied at Yeshiva, Brooklyn, NY
1939 - 1940
Studied at New York University School of Architecture and Allied Arts
1941 - 1943
Scholarship, Yale University School of Fine Arts New Haven, CT
1943 - 1946
Served in the United States Navy
1949
BA, New School for Social Research New York, NY
1950
Studied Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
1951
Studied Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence
1966
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, The New School New York, NY
1973
Skowhegan Gold Medal for Graphics Skowhegan, ME
1985
Honorary DFA, Portland School of Art Portland, OR
1987
Honorary LHD, University of Judaism Los Angeles, CA
1997
Honorary Degree, Springfield College Springfield, MA
2000
Died
Honors & Awards
Honorable mention for sculpture, Prix de Rome, 1940
Tiffany Foundation Fellowship for Sculpture, 1947;
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1953
Ohara Prize, National Museum of Tokyo, 1954
National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant, 1961
Mather Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961
Widener Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1965
Special Medal of Merit, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1965
Medal, National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1969
Cultural Achievement in the Arts Award, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, 1995
Exhibitions
2008
"NaturPapier," KunsGarten, Graz
2007
"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
2006
"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
2005
"Currents: Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Prints," Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
2004
"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
2003
"DeCordova Collects: Gifts from Stephen and Sybil Stone," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2002
"Images of Nature," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2001
"Leonard Baskin," McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON (solo) "The Modern Woodcut," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000
"Leonard Baskin: Monumental Prints," The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1998
"Leonard Baskin: 1947-1998," Hunter Museum of Art Chattanooga, TN
1994
"Caprices, Grotesques and Homages: Leonard Baskin and The Gehenna Press," Library of Congress Washington, DC
1991
Angels to the Jews," Midtown Payson Gallery New York, NY
1984
"The Albertina Vienna, Austria
1970
National Museum of American Art/The Smithsonian Washington, DC
1968 - 1969
XXXIV International Bienniel Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy
1962
The Royal Watercolour Society/St. George's Gallery London, England
