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The Poet Laureate by Leonard Baskin — VisualArtsDB

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The Poet Laureate

1955

Medium: Woodcut
Dimensions: composition (irreg.): 23 1/8 x 48" (58.7 x 121.9cm); sheet: 33 1/16 x 55" (84 x 139.7cm)
Genre: Print
Museum: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY, US

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Edward Calvert after a Portrait by His Third Son, Edward Calvert, Frederick Tathem from a Little Known Photograph, Francis Finch, Samuel Palmer after the Water Color by Walter, plates 115-119 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Edward Calvert after a Portrait by His Third Son, Edward Calvert, Frederick Tathem from a Little Known Photograph, Francis Finch, Samuel Palmer after the Water Color by Walter, plates 115-119 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin, 1956

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Skull, Projected Ex-Libris, Pomegranate Tree, Owl & Pomegranate, Bird's Skull, plates 132-136 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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Leonard Baskin, 1957

Castle, Small Castle, plate 80 and 81 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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Leonard Baskin, 1952

Ex-Libris for the Saxe Collection, Device for the Gehenna Press, plates 56 and 57 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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George Richmond Engraving "The Shephard," George Richmond in his Engraving Costume, Samuel Palmer, A Visionary Portrait of Henry Walter, Samuel Palmer when he first Met Blake, plate 120-125 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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Envy, Pride, Sloth, Wrath, plates 153-156 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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Leonard Baskin, 1958

Dead Bird

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Death Among the Thistles, plate 168 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Death Among the Thistles, plate 168 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin, 1959

Two Blind Men, plate 58 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Two Blind Men, plate 58 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin, 1952

Man with Forsythia, plate 84 from The Wood Engravings of Leonard Baskin

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