Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 1 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
topic: label: Occupation
content: Draftsmen (artists) -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, American
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000
label: Interviewer
content: Cummings, Paul
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was a sculptor and graphic artist from Leeds, Massachusetts and Devon, England. Baskin was born 1922, in New Brunswick, New Jersey and died Northampton, Massachusetts, June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, D.C. Studied at Yale University. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 54 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1969 April 17
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.baskin69
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Leonard Baskin conducted by Paul Cummings for the Archives of American Art.