R. MICHELSON GALLERIES PRESENTS

Baskin and Politics
An Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth


A Personal Remembrance of Leonard Baskin
by Ekwueme Michael Thelwell

Reception: September 9, 2022, 6-8pm


Please join us for a personal remembrance of Leonard Baskin by his friend and contemporary, Ekwueme Michael Thelwell. Professor Thelwell was a founding chairman of the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American studies at the University of Massachusetts. In conjunction with this 100th anniversary exhibition of Leonard Baskin’s birth, we are pleased to have Professor Thelwell discuss his relationship with Baskin, the artist’s political life, his character, and his place in the culture of his time.

Professor Thelwell will speak 6:30-7:00 with time for questions afterward
And join us October 6, 2022 for a virtual presentation by Richard Michelson and Mary Dolan from the FDR Memorial Legacy Committe on Baskin and his work on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington DC.
More details to follow!

Baskin and Politics
An Exhibition on the 100th Anniversary of His Birth



August, 15, 2022 marks the one hundreth anniversary of Leonard Baskin’s birth, a century rife with political strife and violent conflict, circumstances that Baskin never shied away from in his work. Much of Baskin’s artwork was overtly political. He constantly gravitated towards the marginalized, always illuminating the plight of the persecuted and exposing the tyrant, though he was aware of how easily the oppressed could become the oppressor.


Gallery Hours:
Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Sat 10-6
Friday 12-8
Sunday 12-5
About R. Michelson Galleries

For over 40 years, R. Michelson Galleries has been acknowledged as a leader in discovering and nurturing the careers of many of our country's best known figurative artists. Art originally exhibited in our galleries now hangs in many of the most prestigious museums in America, including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Art Institute of Chicago. We are proud to be the first American art gallery to feature the art of children's book illustration alongside and on an equal footing with the more traditional fine arts. R. Michelson Galleries is located in Northampton, Massachusetts, the #1 art town in America, in which "the most prominent visual arts space is R. Michelson Galleries."

-John Villani, The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America


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