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Would be Philosopher
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American, 1922 - 2000)
Date1981
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsOverall: 10-7/8 x 7-5/8 inches (27.7 x 19.2 cm), frame: 18-5/8 x 15-1/8 x 3/4 inches (47.3 x 38.4 x 2.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer
Object number2019.29
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NameWatercolor
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Twentieth
Signedbottom right: Baskin
Inscribedbottom left: 1981
Exhibition HistoryLeonard Baskin: Sculpture and Watercolors, Kennedy Galleries, New York, April 1–April 23, 1982ProvenanceCollection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 1982 from Kennedy Galleries, New York
Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 172 (ill., color).
Leonard Baskin: Sculpture and Watercolors (New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1982), n.p. (ill., color, no. 23).