The collection consists of photographs of African pottery making, post cards of African Art, broadsides and articles on the American Artist Leonard Baskin.
Photographs from the Nathaniel Burwash Collection.
Collection Overview
Nathaniel Burwash (1906-2000) was an American artist born in California. He worked as an artist with the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA), the largest employer of artists during the Great Depression. Burwash worked much of his artistic life in New Hampshire but dropped out of the art world soon after the Depression. His body of work was rediscovered by the State of New Hampshire in the 1990s.
Leonard Baskin (1922-2000) was an American artist, sculptor and print-maker born in New Jersey and raised in Brooklyn. Baskin’s father was a rabbi and the artist was educated in a yeshiva, which had a high degree of influence on his art. He studied at Yale, in 1940’s and in France in the early ‘50s. Baskin taught sculpture and print making at Smith College and while teaching, founded Gehenna Press, which specialized in fine book production. He was a prolific artist in various media and numerous types of subject matter, including portraits, mythological and classical scenes and flowers.