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Maker(s):Baskin, Leonard
Culture:American (1922-2000)
Title:Death of the Poet Laureate
Date Made:1962
Type:Print
Materials:Offset lithograph in black ink on Stoneridge Text paper
Measurements:Sheet: 16 in x 22 in; 40.6 cm x 55.9 cm; Image: 11 11/16 in x 11 5/8 in; 29.7 cm x 29.5 cm
Narrative Inscription:  TITLE/DATE/SIZE (of original woodblock): front, lwr. ctr. (black letterpress text): DEATH OF THE POET LAUREATE, 1959 11 1/2 inches diam.
Accession Number:  UM 2021.79.14
Credit Line:Gift of Adrienne B. Torf in Memory of Lois Beurman Torf, Class of 1946
Museum Collection:  University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMASS Amherst

Description:
Stylized depiction of the frontal view of a large man drapped in fabric or a toga and wearing a laurel wreath on his head. His head is tilted back and one arm is laying over his belly. The compostion is round.

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Baskin, Leonard
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