Leonard Baskin

Recto:

Tormented Man

Verso:

(Study of a Figure)

1956

A dark vulture-like bird perched above a distressed, expressionless human face.
A dark vulture-like bird perched above a distressed, expressionless human face.

Leonard Baskin, Tormented Man, 1956. Pen and ink, brush and ink, wash, watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper (recto); Graphite pencil on paper (verso), sheet: 39 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (101 × 67.3 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Living Arts Foundation Fund 57.52a-b

Recto

Not on view

Date
1956

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pen and ink, brush and ink, wash, watercolor, and graphite pencil on paper (recto); Graphite pencil on paper (verso)

Dimensions
Sheet: 39 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (101 × 67.3 cm)

Accession number
57.52a-b

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Living Arts Foundation Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/1820



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