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Leonard Baskin 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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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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| Selected 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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