Pictor Ignotus
Date1969
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
Publisher
Gehenna Press
(American private publisher, 1942–2005)
Illustration CitationLaus Pictorum: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists. Northampton, Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 1969.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 3 15/16 × 3 7/8 in. (10 × 9.8 cm)
sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-49.12
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextPictor Ignotus may refer to an 1845 poem by Robert Browning about an artistically gifted monk who worked in anonymity, producing art for the glory of his church. Baskin pondered the fate of these master artists who "preferred cowls, mantles, and the deep walled shadows" to fame.
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