Janus (obverse); Study for "Abraham and Isaac" (reverse)

Leonard Baskin, American, 1922 - 2000

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1961

Black ink and wash over graphite on heavy wove Grumbacher paper

Sheet: 22 1/4 × 30 13/16 in. (56.5 × 78.2 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Frederick R. Mebel, Class of 1935, in honor of Churchill P. Lathrop

W.978.154

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Watercolor

Research Area

Watercolor

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed, lower right: Baskin / .1.9.6.1.; Embossed: M GRUMBACHER N. Y. [in circle, top half trimmed]

Exhibition History

Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005.

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 226.

Provenance

Dr. Frederick Ronald Mebel (1913-1998) and Claire E. Mebel (1916-1994); Rockville Center, New York; given to present collection, 1978.

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