Beatitudes
Leonard Baskin, American, 1922 - 2000
after Ben Shahn, American, 1898 - 1969
1955
Color woodcut on Japanese paper
250/400
Impression: 10 1/2 × 15 in. (26.7 × 38.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.955.87.1
Publisher
International Graphic Arts Society, Inc., New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in pen and black ink, lower left: Ben Shahn; inscribed and numbered, in graphite, lower center: Beatitudes 250/400; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: leonard Baskin - sculpsit
Provenance
International Graphic Arts Society, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1955.
Catalogue Raisonne
K. McNulty, The Collected Prints of Ben Shahn, Philadelphia, 1967, no. 6.
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