Life Magazine Year End Issue-Sculpture Garden
"Hephaestus," 64 1/2-inch tall bronze sculpture by Leonard Baskin photographed in garden of Hirshhorn estate in Greenwich, Ct.
Location: Greenwich, CT, US
Date taken: 1973
Photographer: Gjon Mili
Leonard Baskin American, 1922-2000
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Of the three other editions of Baskin’s Hephaestus, one is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and another in the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden
Of the three other editions of Baskin’s Hephaestus, one is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and another in the Hirshhorn Museum Sculpture Garden
Literature
John Canaday, "Baskin and the Sooty God: In a New Exhibition, the American Sculptor Not Only Affirms His High Position, But Tops It," The New York Times, 9 February 1964.
Jacob Nyenhuis, Myth and the Creative Process: Michael Ayrton and the Myth of Daedalus, the Maze Maker, Detroit, 2003, p. 67.
Catalogues
George Braziller, Baskin: Sculpture, Drawings & Prints, New York, 1970, no. 35, illustrated.
Irma Jaffe, The Sculpture of Leonard Baskin, New York, 1980, no. 114, pp. 10, 34, 168, 170, 214, illustrated.