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Old Man, Young Man, the Future
1966 by Leonard Baskin
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Old Man, Young Man, the Future
Photo by R. Tarver
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Predatory birds were a common theme for Leonard Baskin, who was also a painter, printmaker and book illustrator. Compare Jacques Lipchitz’s sculptural birds.
In the courtyard of Society Hill Towers (designed by IM Pei), a forbidding birdlike creature faces off against a seated old man and a standing younger one. According to sculptor Leonard Baskin, the bird represents both the Future and the “promising and ominous” nature of external reality.
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