The archive of his work at the Gehenna Press was acquired by the Bodleian Library at Oxford, England, in 2009. His works are owned by many major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art and the Vatican Museums. His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure, erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Funeral Contege (1997) bronze, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. Sylvia Plath dedicated Sculpto to Leonard Baskin in her famous work, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960). He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Subsequently Baskin also taught at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. Leonard Baskin was an American sculptor, illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.īaskin was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. bears label versoĪrt: 31" H x 22" W Frame: 36" H x 27" W. Provenance: Grace Borgenicht gallery, Jeffrey M. Leonard Baskin (American, 1922-2000) ink and gouache drawing on paper titled "Darkened Man", signed lower right, circa 1957. She was in an exhibit of Tamarind prints. The Treimans, along with Rene and Rose Wahl, moved to Los Angeles in 1960. In 1945 she married Kenneth Treiman, and son Donald, now an Architect, was born in 1950. During World War II she worked as a commercial artist but resigned when she began to have success with exhibitions of her work in Chicago and New York. She attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and then studied at the State University of Iowa (today the University of Iowa) under the influential painter Philip Guston. In her later paintings she is known to have inserted self-portraits. She made several trips to Europe to study the old masters, and the human figure is central in her work. Her work ranged from "the impishly perverse and humorously paradoxical to the brilliant and profound." She was known as an excellent draftsperson throughout her career. Joyce Wahl Treiman was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor and teacher. Ink on paper, framed under glass signed in pencil lower right ĭimensions: 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches frame.
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