Lot 264
Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000). Portrait of Thomas Eakins - woodcut, 20th century. Edition 76 of 175. Signed and numbered in pencil below portrait. A bust-length woodcut portrait of Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (1844-1916) by Leonard Baskin, rendered in an oval format and set behind a decorative matte in an attractive frame under glass. Thomas Eakins was a pioneering American artist, perhaps most famous for his realist paintings (including poignant portraits) and motion photography. Size of image: 2.25" L x 1.75" W (5.7 cm x 4.4 cm) Size of frame: 17.5" L x 13.5" W (44.4 cm x 34.3 cm)
Eakins was also an educator who incited much controversy due to his interest in the human body. He oftentimes depicted scantily clad figures engaged in physical poses - usually male athletes such as wrestlers, rowers, and swimmers - and also created photographic studies to accurately capture the physicality of athletes. What's more, he encouraged his students at the Pennsylvania Academy to work from live nude models, a practice that stirred up quite an uproar during his day.
Leonard Baskin was a 20th century "Renaissance Man" if you will; he was a highly respected sculptor, printmaker, writer, and watercolorist. His prints included mythological, classical, and biblical scenes as well as portraits and floral studies. Baskin studied at Yale University from 1941 to 1943 and received his B.A. at the New School for Social Research in 1949. He also founded Gehenna Press which specialized in fine book production and taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts as well as Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts from 1953 until 1974. Baskin's artworks are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Vatican Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Tate Gallery in London, and other elite institutions. His noted public sculptural commissions include pieces for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial as well as the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Baskin also received many prestigious honors, such as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award. He was also honored with numerous retrospective exhibitions at institutions including the Smithsonian Museum, the Albertina Museum, and the Library of Congress.
Provenance: ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010
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- Condition: This artwork is signed in pencil and the sitter is identified as Eakins in pencil below the portrait. The woodcut is framed behind glass and has not been examined outside the frame. One can see some normal toning to the paper through the glass, but the portrait is vivid and the signature and title are legible. Scuffs and abrasions to the frame as shown. Tears to gallery paper on verso that do not impact the artwork. Frame has a suspension wire and is ready for display.
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