Birth Name:

Leonard Baskin

Male

Birth Date:

Tue, Aug 15, 1922

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Age:

102

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

22°

Leo

1'

About Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June 3, 2000) was an American sculptor, draughtsman and graphic artist, as well as founder of the Gehenna Press (1942–2000). One of America's first fine arts presses, it went on to become "one of the most important and comprehensive art presses of the world", often featuring the work of celebrated poets, such as Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, and James Baldwin side by side with Baskin's bold, stark, energetic and often dramatic black-and-white prints. Called a "Sculptor of Stark Memorials" by the New York Times, Baskin is also known for his wood, limestone, bronze, and large-scale woodblock prints, which ranged from naturalistic to fanciful, and were frequently grotesque, featuring bloated figures or humans merging with animals. "His monumental bronze sculpture, The Funeral Cortege, graces the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C."

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• The official web site of Leonard Baskin; The Gehenna Press; Gehenna Prints (leonardbaskin.com)

• Leonard Baskin biography, chronology, etc at Galerie St. Etienne – official representative of the Estate of Leonard Baskin

• "Medea & Her Sisters: Leonard Baskin's Images of Women" – 2007 exhibition at the Smith College Museum of Art

• Leonard Baskin & The Gehenna Press at Brandeis University

• Artifex: Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press at Cornell University

• Leonard Baskin at R. Michelson Galleries

• Leonard Baskin at Annex Galleries (20 search hits)

• Leonard Baskin at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• Leonard Baskin at Library of Congress Authorities, with 164 catalog records (and Gehenna Press, 70 records)

• Hughes-Baskin Papers at the British Library

• Leonard Baskin broadsides and prints at the Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Smith College Special Collections

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Leonard Baskin: Sun 22 Leo, Moon 19 Taurus, Mercury 0 Virgo, Venus 5 Libra, Mars 16 Sagittarius, Jupiter 15 Libra, Saturn 4 Libra, Uranus 12 Pisces, Neptune 15 Leo, Pluto 10 Cancer, Sun Semi Square Venus, Sun Semi Square Saturn, Sun Conjunct Neptune, Mercury Semi Square Jupiter, Venus Conjunct Saturn, Venus Square Pluto, Mars Sextile Jupiter, Mars Square Uranus, Mars Trine Neptune, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Square Pluto, Uranus Trine Pluto

Categories related to Leonard Baskin: August 15 births, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University alumni, 2000 deaths, 20th-century American printmakers, 20th-century American sculptors, Jewish American artists, American printmakers, American male sculptors, 20th-century male artists, AIGA medalists, Modern sculptors, Hampshire College faculty, Smith College faculty, 1922 births, Private press movement people, 20th-century American Jews, United States Navy personnel of World War II, Boston expressionism, Cultural history of Boston, American wood engravers