The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0075 Baskin, Leonard, Scout, 99/100, lithograph, 34½” x 28,” 1975 illus: p 84

UGPL 0110 Baskin, Leonard, Little Bird Azapahea, 6/100, lithograph, 35” x 24,” 1973

UGPL 0122 Baskin, Leonard, Quanah Parker. Comanche, IX/XX, lithograph, 36¾” x 29½,” 1974

UGPL 0128 Baskin, Leonard, Yellow. Magpie. Arapahoe, 6/100, lithograph, 35” x 24,” 1973

Leonard Baskin (1922- )

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Printmaker, sculptor, and book designer, Leonard Baskin has utilized traditional techniques of wood carving, woodcuts, etching, and lithography during a brilliant career. He was a dissident humanist during the powerful period of Abstract Expressionism and Pop, Hard-Edge, and Minimalist Painting, continually experimenting with figures illustrative of ‘Universal Man’, and the mythic, allegorical symbolism of the human figure.

His work may now be seen in the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum; Amon Carter Museum; Bezalel National Museum, Israel; Library of Congress: National Gallery, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kunst Pa Arbeidsplassen, Oslo; the City Museum of St. Louis; and many others.

The son of a rabbi, Baskin was born in 1922 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and began his early studies with Maurice Glickman. He had his first one-man show at the age of 17 in New York, and also studied at New York University, Yale, the New School, and in Europe. He later became a member of the art faculty at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.