Angel of Death
Date1959
Artist
Leonard Baskin
American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000
MediumWoodcut
Dimensionscomposition: 61 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. (155.6 × 76.8 cm)
sheet: 78 × 37 1/4 in. (198.1 × 94.6 cm)
sheet: 78 × 37 1/4 in. (198.1 × 94.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Nina Appel, 2009
Object number2009-77
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBaskin's large woodcuts are among his most powerful works. Howard Devree, art critic for The New York Times, described the artist's large drawings and prints as "almost startlingly anatomical." And though Baskin's lines do not denote specific muscles and veins, they course with life.
