Leonard Baskin - Sculpture


Leonard Baskin's main focus throughout his life was sculpture: "My sculptures are memorials to ordinary human beings, gigantic monuments to the unnoticed dead: the exhausted factory worker, the forgotten tailor, the unsung poet... Sculpture at its greatest and most monumental is about simple, abstract, emotional states, like fear, pride, love and envy... Over the years I have developed a series of images of predatory birds and vicious human beings as well as producing a bizarre motley of iconic devices that say...BASKIN!"


An Other Angel
46" x 26" x 30"

Glutted Death with Wings
33" x 20" x 20"

The Artist's Nightmare
23" x 23" x 25"

Helen (of Troy)
29" x 19" x 18"

Phaedra
30" x 16" x 17"

Seated Muse
31" x 19" x 24"

Sibyl with Owl
35" x 21" x 25"

The Muse
14" x 14" x 15"

Death Satiate and Exhausted
20" x 15" x 15"

Boy Standing
15" x 8" x 5"

Study for Divinator
31" x 9" x 6"

Lazarus
30" x 17" x 14"

The Arrival
26" x 15" x 18"

The Sentinal
13" x 8" x 8.5"
  

Ann Arbor Holocaust Memorial

On the site of the First Jewish Cemetery in Michigan stands the Ann Arbor Holocaust Memorial, a 7-foot seated figure with a fist over its face and a hand raised to the sky. "It's ambivalent," said Baskin, "The figure is in some sort of misery, wrapped up entirely in himself."

Holocaust Memorial Maquette
27" x 20" x 24"

Holocaust Figure 2
31" x 14" x 14"

Holocaust Figure 2
22 " x 12" x 14"
     

Wood Sculpture

Yoked Crow
38" x 19" x 42"

St. Anthony
21" x 10" x 11"

Bird
17" x 32" x 19"

Thomas Eakins Medallion

Portrait of Thomas Eakins Medallion
2.5"

In 1972 the well-known Philadelphia sculptor Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) created one thousand of these handsome sterling silver medals depicting the illustrious American artist Thomas Eakins, whom Baskin greatly admired.

Commissioned by the Thomas Eakins Foundation issued by the Franklin Mint, the medals commemorated the then almost-completed restoration of Eakins' house at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, a project initiated in 1969 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of Eakins' birth.

A limited number of these medals are available.

Medal weight: 7.6oz
Medal size: 2.5" diameter.

 

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