William Morris

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© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York
William Morris
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William Morris

Date1969, carved 1960
Illustration CitationLaus Pictorum: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists. Northampton, Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 1969.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 3 5/8 × 2 1/4 in. (9.2 × 5.7 cm)
sheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-49.5
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Label TextWilliam Morris (1834–1896) was a poet, a socialist, a printer, and a designer of elegant furnishings. Baskin particularly admired him as a "designer for cloth, paper, and books." Morris founded the Kelmscott Press, which printed fine books in limited editions, as Baskin did at the Gehenna Press.
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