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Aristophanes (448-385 BCE)
Ink
1963

Greatest of the ancient comic dramatists, he holds an important place in the development of political satire.

These drawings were illustrations for the Eaton Press’ edition of Aristotle’s Politics and Poetics published in 1964. Baskin has illustrated works of literature from some of the greatest writers in history, ancient to contemporary, and both in collaboration and in memoriam.




The Prophet  I  Strabismic Jew  I  T. E. (Thomas Eakins)  I  Wisdom Lights up a Person’s Face I  The Raptor  I  On Rosh Hoshanna it is Inscribed  I  On Yom Kippur it is Sealed  I  Mourning Mother  I  Crow II  I  Medea in Her Magic-Making Costume  I  Self Portrait  I  Man of Peace  I  Vashti  I  Euripides  I  Solon  I  Socrates  I  Aristophanes  I  Aristotle  I  Universal Man  I  Red Cloud  I  Scorpion  I  Frog  I  Bacon’s Boar  I  Spider  I  Abundant Bird  I  LB AET S 56  I Hanged Man  I  Bird  I  FDR: Cortege - Mourning Woman I  FDR: Cortege - Study for Mourning Woman I  Rainbow Bird  I  Mexican Self Portrait  I  Dead Man  I  Lazarus  I Ostrich I D is for Demon I An Iris For Lisa I Thistle and Blue Flower I Thistle and Yellow Flower I Red Flower  I  Profiles  I  Medea (sculpture)  I   LB AET S 70  I  Ann Arbor Holocaust Memorial Maquette #3  I  Masks  I  Of Making Many Books There is No End And Much Study is a Weariness of the Flesh I  Birdman  I In Memory of Louis Black I  Saint Anthony of Padua