Leonard Baskin
- American artist (1922-2000)
- Creatively active for over 50 years as a sculptor, printmaker, painter, illustrator, writer and educator
- Most noted for his monumental woodcuts that brought figurative printmaking on par with abstract expressionists who were his peers
- Commissions include sculpture for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Washington, DC
- Honors: Guggenheim Fellowship, the Gold Medal of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Jewish Cultural Achievement Award
- Exhibitions: the Smithsonian, the Albertina, the Library of Congress and others
Artwork by Leonard Baskin
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