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Hydrogen Man

Hydrogen Man

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Leonard Baskin

The fear of nuclear war became an undercurrent of American thought by the 1950s. Some artists used printmaking to react to the horror of annihilation, others to the atmosphere of paranoia.
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American, 1922 - 2000)
Title
Hydrogen Man
Date
1954
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
73 1/2 x 42 1/8 in. Overall
Credit
Humanistic Foundation Fund purchase
Accession No.
60.3.2
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

before 1966, sold to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Rudolph H. Weingartner and Starr Figura, "Prints by Sculptors: The Rudolph H. and Fannia Weingartner Collection at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art." Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2001 no. 2
  • Figura, Starr. "Pressing the Point: Twentieth-century Prints by Sculptors." Prints by Sculptors: The Rudolph H. and Fannia Weingartner Collection, Evanston, IL: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, 2001.
  • Watrous, James, "A Century of American Printmaking, 1880-1980." Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984. p. 189, no. 6.17
  • Hults, Linda C. "The Print in the Western World." Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. pp. 793-794, no. 13.30
  • Madison Art Center. "Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings From The University of Wisconsin Collections." Madison, WI: The Madison Art Association, 1965.

  • Loaded Image, The: Printmaking as Persuasion: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/18/2011–10/30/2011
  • Monumental Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 5/12/1995–6/18/1995
  • Century of American Printmaking 1880-1980, A: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/18/1984–4/8/1984
  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings from the University of Wisconsin Collections: Madison Art Center, 11/21/1965–12/11/1965

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