LEONARD BASKIN Original Huge PENCIL SIGNED Color Lithograph INDIAN FACES Ltd. Ed

Description: Artist: LEONARD BASKIN (American, 1922 - 2000)Title: "Indian Faces" 1974Date: 1973, from Baskins first, and more important, series of diverse Nineteenth-Century Native Americans from 1972 to 1975Medium: Original Color Lithograph on watermarked Velin d'Arches Wove paperSignature: Signed by the Artist in Graphite / Pencil, LREdition: Limited Edition of only 100 impressions; this one numbered "__/100" in Pencil, LLSize: 40 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches (sheet); image: 86 × 61 cm (33 7/8 × 24 in.); sheet: 105.73 × 75.57 cm (41 5/8 × 29 3/4 in.)Printer: Printed by the ArtistPublisher: Published by Gehenna Press, Northampton, Massachusetts & Herman D. Schickman. Delphic Arts, New YorkReference: Fern/O'Sullivan 1984, no. 642Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Arts About the Artist: Leonard Baskin is widely considered one of the preeminent figures of 20th century American art. Creatively active for over five decades as a sculptor, printmaker, painter, illustrator, critic, book publisher, and educator, his work resonates with a rare degree of visual, social, and intellectual intensity. He was, however, most notable for his monumental woodcuts that brought figurative printmaking on par with the abstract expressionsists who were popular at the time. Baskin received numerous honors, among them a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award. He had many retrospective exhibitions, including those at the Smithsonian, the Albertina, and the Library of Congress. About Baskin's Monumental Native American Lithographs: Leonard Baskin’s interest in nineteenth century Native Americans was roused into acute attendance from ignorant indifference, when the National Park Service asked him to provide illustrations for the handbook that described the then called “Custer National Park”, now called “Little Big-Horn National Park”. Baskin’s detestation of Custer was as near instantaneous as was his respect for the people of the Sioux. From Hollywood’s distortions,cliches and prevalent bad slogans of the time, Baskin’s insight into the vast, resolute, and wanton, destruction of our native populace was matched by his deepening regard for the wisdom and courage of the Sioux and other Indian Chieftains. In his two series of lithographs of diverse Nineteenth Century Native Americans, Baskin indubitably suggests his profound and ongoing interest in such monumental heroes as Crazy Horse , Red Cloud, and Chief Gaul. In these series of lithographs, he has captured the sense of loss and betrayal felt by these people, as well as the despairing and aloof dignity of the nineteenth century chiefs.

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Location: Indio, California

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