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1962.118

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Man of Peace

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Artist

Leonard Baskin (New Brunswick, New Jersey, 8/15/1922 - 6/3/2000, Northampton, Massachusetts)

Title

Man of Peace

Creation Date

1952

Century

20th century

Dimensions

62 1/8 in. x 31 1/16 in. (157.72 cm. x 78.82 cm.)

Object Type

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

woodcut on paper

Credit Line

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert C. Lee

Copyright

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Accession Number

1962.118

While artists associated with abstract expressionism, minimalism, and color-field painting turned away from figurative representation, Leonard Baskin renewed his commitment to the human figure. "It contains all and it can express all...to search the maze of man's physicality, to wander the body's magnitudes is to search for the image of man," said Baskin. Carved after Baskin's return from World War II, the emaciated Man of Peace lifts a "dove" across barbed wire as a symbol of peace, implicitly referring to internment and extermination camps and evoking battlefields.