"Night Forest"

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"Night Forest", etching and aquatint on wove "Arches" paper with water mark and deckle edges, 17 3/4" x 14 11/16" (sheet size is 28 1/4" x 22 3/8 "), signed in pencil and numbered 22/50 by the artist, lower right.

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000), American sculptor and printmaker, was born in  New Brunswick, New Jersey.  He studied at New York University, Yale, Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, and, Accademia delle Belle Arti, Florence.  He was awarded the Tiffany fellowship for sculpture and Guggenheim for printmaking.   Baskin is widely credited with "re-inventing" the wood-cut after World War II. His works are included in 16 major American Museums.

This work is in a  28 3/8" x 34" frame newly created specifically for this etching featuring a Black troweled wall surface with a "coal like" texture.   The 8-ply Khaki outer and 4-ply Photo Gray acid and lignin free mats are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ……$1000.00.