Word: baskin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exhibit displays a few works, as well, by the two artists who have dominated American prints for the past five years--Leonard Baskin and Antonio Frasconi. Frasconi has changed very much in the last year. His sharp, forceful decorativism has been discarded for a softer, simpler style. Frasconi's delicate color sense has never been so in evidence. Here, the subtlest relationships between greys, violets and deep greens are explored. Yet, in the simplification of forms, compositional balance and interest has been slighted...
...Baskin is represented with only one print, a powerful woodcut entitled Death of a Laureate. A hideous, paunchy Caesar seems to gore himself with his own hand. The intricate details that contrast so effectively with the forceful large areas of pure black testify once more to the skill of this master craftsman of American art. More of his work should have been exhibited...
...collection, which ranges from Haitian primitives to an abstraction painted on the spot in 1 min. 40 sec. The collection crams every room of the house, is growing so fast that Rodman recently added a gallery wing where his favorite new "insiders" hang. Chief insiders: Rico Lebrun, Leonard Baskin, James Kearns. Lebrun is typically represented by an agonized nude entitled Crying Machine, Baskin by a recumbent sculpture suggestive of a fire victim, and Kearns by a powerful drawing of children watching an auto accident. The Kearns has Spanish intensity, plus the dark, gritty air of a Pennsylvania mining town...
Judges of the show, which was held last week in the Leverett House junior common room, were Leonard Baskin, artist and professor of Fine Arts at Smith College, and Georgy Kepes, professor of Architecture at M.I.T...
While the wine was chilling at the beginning of the evening, a forum was held on the collecting of art. Leonard Baskin, Wellesley art historian John McAndrew, and John Nicholas Brown '22, introduced as a yachtsman and collector, were the scheduled speakers. Dwight MacDonald, replacing ailing Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus, completed the panel...