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Maker(s):Baskin, Leonard
Culture:American (1922-2000)
Title:The Strabismic Jew
Date Made:1962
Type:Print
Materials:Offset lithograph in black and red ink on Stoneridge Text paper
Measurements:Sheet: 22 in x 16 in; 55.9 cm x 40.6 cm; Image: 17 3/8 in x 9 5/8 in; 44.1 cm x 24.4 cm
Narrative Inscription:  TITLE/DATE/SIZE (of original woodblock): front, lwr. ctr. (black letterpress text): THE STRABISMIC JEW, 1955 41 1/2 x 23 inches
Accession Number:  UM 2021.79.9
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 bearded nude man from the thighs up. The man's eyes squint and Yiddish text in the background reads "The Jew with the crossed eyes"

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Baskin, Leonard
American (1922-2000)
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