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Leonard Baskin    (American, 1922-2000)




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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
1958 Pasadena Art Museum Pasadena, CA
1939 Glickman Studio Gallery New York, NY
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