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Object Details

Artist

Leonard Baskin, American, b. New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1922–2000

Provenance

JHH purchased from Boris Mirski Gallery, Boston 1960

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Animal in Art: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum Collection," 17 November 1977-15 January 1978, no. 7.

Published References

Art Journal (winter 1963-64), ill. p. 152

Irma Jaffe, The Sculptures of Leonard Baskin, NY, 1980, p. 213

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966

Date

(1960)

Accession Number

66.391

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Bronze on iron base

Dimensions

20 1/2 × 17 7/8 × 18 in. (52.5 × 45.4 × 45.7 cm) on base: 5/8 × 16 × 10 in. (1.5 × 40.4 × 25.3 cm)

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Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py227c37646-6eeb-4ed3-9d9a-2c8fa52af1e4

Record ID

hmsg_66.391

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