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Wisdom Lights up a Person’s Face
Gouache
1993

The phrase is from Ecclesiastes. Baskin would often merge his calligraphy with an image. This watercolor is in the form of many of his illustrations for the Passover Haggadah, one of the most widely used haggadahs in recent times. This wonderful image is a subtle precursor to his use of extrapolated or invented verses in his powerful series of monumental holocaust woodcuts a few years later.





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