Chief Wets It - Assinnboine

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)

Date

1972
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Lithograph
Dimensions

Image: 33 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.
Sheet: 35 x 25 in.
Edition

142/160
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. in graphite: [printer's blind-embossed chop: 142 /160 \ CHIEF WETS IT. ASSINNBOINE[.]
l.r. in graphite: Baskin
l.r.: .BASKIN.1972.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Max Walen
Accession Number

1975.6
Copyright

© The Estate of Leonard Baskin; Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York

Leonard Baskin: Indian Portraits

June 22–September 1, 2013

This exhibition, consisting of Baskin’s prints and drawings from the early 1970s, showcases his sense of social justice and admiration for American Indian life and culture through portraiture that is highly focused on facial features and expressions.

Location: Off view

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