Letters and card : Northampton, Mass., Little Deer Isle, Me., and Lurley, Devon, to Seymour Adelman, 1961-1963 and 1980-1985.

Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000

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Sculptor and graphic artist; Leeds, Mass. and Devon, England. b. 1922, in New Brunswick, N.J. d. Northampton, Mass., June 3, 2000, age 77. Worked on FDR memorial in Washington, DC. Studied at Yale Univ. Founded the Gehenna Press in 1942. Taught at Smith College, in Northampton, MA, 1953-1974, and Hampshire College, in Amherst, MA, 1984-1994. From the description of Oral history interview with Leonard Baskin, 1969 Apr. 17. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220184...

Gehenna press

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Adelman, Seymour, 1906-

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Bibliophile, collector; Philadelphia, Pa. Died 1985. Adelman met Susan Eakins in the 1930s and became her close friend and promoter of the work of Thomas Eakins. From the description of Selections from the Seymour Adelman collection, 1845-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122395002 ...

Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

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Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...