Leonard Baskin
It is impossible to overstate the importance of the internationally acclaimed artist, Leonard Baskin, in the world of art. A dominant figure for more than 40 years,
Mr. Baskin is the recipient of numerous awards, amongst them a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His work is in the permanent collections of most of the world's major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian and the Vatican Museum.

On May 2, 1997, the President of the United States dedicated the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in our nation's capital. Visitors from around the world encountered the Memorial's myriad of waterfalls, spilling over granite walls into sparkling pools. This provided the dramatic setting for a thirty-foot long bas-relief by Leonard Baskin of Roosevelt's funeral cortege.

This was only the third time this century that the United States has dedicated a Presidential Memorial. The last time such a dedication took place was in 1943 when President Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.

Mr. Baskin's sculpture, watercolors, prints, and books have been featured in galleries and museums throughout the world.

"I will hold true to the fixtures and the implements of my art . . . I will perceive man as the ultimate need, the transmutive vessel, the quotient of truth, the central and fiery concern, the precinct of value, the praxis of my art."