A black-and-white ink portrait of a Indigenous person with their hands folded in their lap.

Kicking Bear--Sioux

Leonard Baskin (1922-2000)

Date

1971
Object Type

Drawings
Medium

Ink and ink wash on paper
Dimensions

40 5/8 x 27 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.r.: Baskin \ . 1971 .
Verso:
l.c. in graphite: [.]KICKING BEAR[.] [.]SIOUX[.]
l.c. in graphite: LB #[illeg.]
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1971.12
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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