A noted contemporary artist pays homage to artists of the past with whom he feels a degree of kinship, offering interpretive essays on the works and times of these artists

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Baskin, Leonard

Arts & Photography

Harcourt

A tribute, in words and portraiture, to his fellow artists by the American-born illustrator, printmaker and sculptor Leonard Baskin (1922-2000). With over 100 marvelous black & white Baskin illustrations, consisting of drawings, etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs. --- In full red cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features Baskin drawings to both front and back.

Photography & Video

Andre Deutsch

Dust jacket notes: "Leonard Baskin's portraits of the eerie intersection between daydream and nightmare and between the human and animal worlds have made him one of the artistic masters of our time, and nowhere is his hold on us stronger than in his darkly gripping birds. The Raptors brings together nearly seventy images that span three full decades of work. Here are his sinister birds of prey, Raven and Crow, whose menacing forms reminds us of the primitive in us all. Here are his haunting bird-humans, beckoning us with sharp talons as they flex their muscled wings and legs. Here as well are the delicate Loon and Snowy Owl, whose meticulous execution testifies to Baskin's skill as an observer and interpreter of nature. Joining these classic figures from Baskin's oeuvre is a mesmerizing new series, the Raptors - the ultimate predators. Fragile watercolors and fierce, bold pen-and-ink drawings capture the extraordinary range, vigor, intensity, and subtle sophistication of Baskin's eye and hand. This is a ravishing portfolio of masterpieces to cap a much-heralded career."

RAPTORS AND OTHER BIRDS

Pantheon

First edition. The four volumes are entitled: Extinct Creatures, Domestic Animals, Insects, and Seven Fish, One Crab, One Lobster &amp; One Octopus. Slipcase rubbed. cloth, dust jackets, all enclosed in a slipcase with above title on it.. 16mo..

Leonard Baskin's Miniature Natural History, First Series

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Pantheon Books

An illustrated catalogue of imps, hobgoblins, demons, and witches taken from literature and the author's own imagination.

Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

A Caldecott Honor-winning artist has created twenty-two rich and inventive portraits of dragons, including Smaug from Tolkein's "Hobbit," Eustice from the Narnia Chronicles, and an eight-tailed dragon from China

A Book of Dragons

Knopf Books for Young Readers

First Series. Four Volumes. Includes: 1. Seven Fish, ONE Crab, ONE Lobster, ONE Octopus; 2. Insects; 3. Domestic Animals; 4. Extinct Creatures (First Series) Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 - June 3, 2000) was an important American sculptor, book-illustrator, wood-engraver, printmaker, graphic artist, writer and teacher.   While he was a student at Yale University, he founded Gehenna Press, a small private press specializing in fine book production. From 1953 until 1974, he taught printmaking and sculpture at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.  He lived most of his life in the U.S., but spent nine years in Devon at Lurley Manor, Lurley, near Tiverton, close to his friend Ted Hughes, for whom he illustrated Crow. Sylvia Plath dedicated "Sculptor" to Leonard Baskin. It was the penultimate poem in The Colossus (1960).

Leonard Baskin's Miniature natural history: First series

An illustrated catalogue of imps, hobgoblins, demons, and witches taken from literature and the author's own imagination.

Features twenty dragons from many mythologies and literatures, including St. George's dragon, the Hydra, and Smug from "Hobbit."

A full-page illustration of a creature for each letter of the alphabet, including a bumptious baboon, furious fly, ghastly garrulous gargoyle, and quintessential quail.

Hosie's Alphabet

Viking Juvenile

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RAPTORS AND OTHER BIRDS

Leonard Baskin's Miniature Natural History, First Series

Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves

A Book of Dragons

Leonard Baskin's Miniature natural history: First series

Imps, Demons, Hobgoblins, Witches, Fairies & Elves

A Book of Dragons

Hosie's Alphabet