Envy
Date1958
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
Publisher
Gehenna Press
(American private publisher, 1942–2005)
Illustration CitationThe Seven Deadly Sins; Poems by Anthony Hecht (Northampton, Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 1958).
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 3 3/16 in. (8.1 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 13/16 in. (25.7 × 19.8 cm)
sheet: 10 1/8 × 7 13/16 in. (25.7 × 19.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-38
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThis wood engraving was produced for a Gehenna Press edition of Anthony Hecht's The Seven Deadly Sins, which paired Hecht's poems and Baskin's illustrations. Hecht and Baskin met while teaching at Smith College in the 1950s and would collaborate on three other publications.
