Leonard Baskin

(Illustration for Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea)

c. 1958

A black ink drawing on an off-white paper depicting an abstract, skeletal-like structure with sharp, elongated protrusions that resemble a fantastical creature or a piece of driftwood. The artwork has a rough, textured appearance with dynamic lines and is signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

A black ink drawing on an off-white paper depicting an abstract, skeletal-like structure with sharp, elongated protrusions that resemble a fantastical creature or a piece of driftwood. The artwork has a rough, textured appearance with dynamic lines and is signed by the artist in the lower right corner.

Not on view

Date
c. 1958

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink and graphite pencil on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/4 × 10 3/4in. (19.7 × 27.3 cm)

Accession number
96.60.3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Charles Simon Bequest

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/10314

Leonard Baskin
30 works in the collection, 11 exhibitions

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