Medea in Her Magic-Making Costume
Lithograph
1982

Greek mythological images fill Baskin’s work. Medea, in the play by Euripides, a tribal sorceress turned Queen is enraged over her husband’s leaving her for a younger woman. In an act of vengeance, she kills their two children. Baskin was fascinated by the cruelty humankind enacts upon itself, or as he put it, “man’s inhumanity to man.”