I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.

His public commissions include a bas relief for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and a bronze statue of a seated figure erected in 1994 for the Holocaust Memorial in Ann Arbor Michigan. Sylvia Plath dedicated "Sculptor" to Leonard Baskin. Life and work
Baskin was born in New Brunswick New Jersey.

Leonard Baskin (August 15 1922 – June 3 2000) was an American sculptor book-illustrator wood-engraver printmaker graphic artist writer and teacher.