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Custos Morum

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Leonard Baskin

Leonard Baskin

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American (1922–2000)

  • Date: circa 1950
  • Woodcut Print on Rice Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
  • Edition of Unpublished Proof
  • Image Size: 43 x 12 inches
  • Size: 62 x 40 in. (157.48 x 101.6 cm)

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about Custos Morum

Leonard Baskin's expressive portrait of a guardian of morals is shadowy and solemn.

With his wrinkled skin and stern expression, the aged man wears a perforated shroud with a double-pointed hat and is accompanied by a small pig resting at his feet.

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About The Artist: Leonard Baskin

A sculpture demonstration at Macy's proved a turning point for fourteen-year-old Leonard Baskin. The boy returned home with five pounds of plasticene clay and the notion that he would become a sculptor. Over the course of a career that spanned the better part of the twentieth century, Baskin would earn the distinction he sought as a teenager. Numbered among his works are sculpture commissions for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in...

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About The Medium: Woodcut

A relief process in which the image is cut in a block of wood with tools such as knives, goughers or chisels. The image is inked with a roller, paper is applied to the surface and the back is then rubbed by hand or with a rubbing tool, transferring the image to the paper.

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Custos Morum

Leonard Baskin

circa 1950

Unframed

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Custos Morum

Leonard Baskin

circa 1950

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