biografia di Leonard BASKIN (1922-2000)

Birth place: New Brunswick, NJ

Addresses: Northampton, MA

Profession: Sculptor, graphic artist, printmaker

Studied: Educational Alliance, with Maurice Glickman, 1937-39; New York Univ., 1939-41; Yale Sch. Fine Arts, 1941-43; Tiffany Found. fel., 1947; New Sch. Social Res., AB, 1949; Acad. de la Grande Chaumière, 1950; Acad. Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1951; New Sch. Social Res., DFA, 1966; Clark Univ., LHD, 1966; Univ. Mass., DFA, 1968.

Exhibited: WMAA, 1955-68; PAFA, 1962, 1964, 1966 (prize); Am Inst Graphic Artists, 1965 (med.); New Sch. Social Res., 1967; Nat. Inst. Arts & Lett., 1969 (med. of merit, graphic arts); Sao Paulo, Brazil; Mus. Art Mod., Paris; Yugoslavia; Zurich, Switz.; Kennedy Galleries, NYC, 1970s. Awards: Guggenheim Found. fel., 1953.

Member: Nat. Inst. Arts & Lett.; William Morris Soc.; Am. Inst. Graphic Artists.

Work: MoMA; MMA; BM; Nat. Gallery Art, Wash., DC; Fogg Mus. Art; Univ. of Nebraska

Comments: Expressionist-realist sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. Teaching: prof. sculpture & graphic arts, Smith Col 1953-70s.

Sources: WW73; Herbert Read, A Concise History of Modern Sculpture (1964); Raphael Soyer, article in: Homage to Thomas Eakins, etc (1965); Craven, Sculpture in America; Baigell, Dictionary.

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