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.