The Seven Deadly Sins
Leonard Baskin, The Seven Deadly Sins, 1958, illustrated bound book with seven wood engravings on Mokuroku paper, Bequest of Dr. Francis J. Newton, © The Estate of Leonard Baskin; Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2007.54.10
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- Title
The Seven Deadly Sins
- Artist
- Related People
- Date
1958
- Medium
illustrated bound book with seven wood engravings on Mokuroku paper
- Edition
68/300
- Catalogue Raisonné
Fern and O'Sullivan 355-361
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
overall: 7 7/8 in x 8 in x 3/16 in; sheet: 7 3/8 in x 7 5/8 in
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Books, Portfolios, and Manuscripts
- Object Type
book
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Bequest of Dr. Francis J. Newton
- Accession Number
2007.54.10
- Copyright
© The Estate of Leonard Baskin; Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York
- Terms
In The Seven Deadly Sins, Leonard Baskin explored the long tradition of emblem books—didactic volumes common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that contained illustrations and moral instruction. He wrote, "I was, by 1958, deep in enchanted pursuit of early emblem books. A new friendship was wrought with the splendid poet Anthony Hecht, and given his great interest in formal poetics, a new emblem book inevitably resulted; it is entirely conceived in sixteenth-century modalities."
- Exhibitions
2013 Artist & Book: 100 Years Portland Art Museum