Lebrun, Rico et al. — Leonard Baskin

Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the master printmaker, Leonard Baskin, at the half-title, "For Agnes, a memorable opening. Leonard. 0. 12. 1962." Illustrated wraps, protected in a stiff Mylar jacket, and augmented with an original print taken from a block at the Gehenna Press! Replete with black-and-white illustrations throughout, this comprising an exhibit catalog from a 1962 show of original prints by the American artist and book designer, Leonard Baskin. One of his sculpted busts of Thomas Eakins graces the front cover, and the pulled print is of a likeness of Hendrick Goltzius, signed by Baskin in pencil, lovely and tissue-protected. The Acknowledgments note that this was "the first full-scale exhibition of the work of a major contemporary American artist to be held in the seventy-year history of the Bowdoin Colege Museum of Art." Introduction by Rico Lebrun, "Sculpture" by Julius S. Held, from Barnard College, then "Drawings" by Winslow Ames, "Prints" by Harold Joachim, Gehenna Press Books, by Ray Nash, followed by a Selected Bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Illustrator. . Fine