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Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1910  

color woodcut 

8 7/8 x 13 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

from an edition of 100 impressions 

titled, lower left; dated -10 after signature 

Chamberlain 27; No. 11 from In the Hills of Brown 

laid Japan paper 

published 

artist for his In The Hills of Brown portfolio 

AB2062 

SOLD

One of twelve color woodcuts originally published by Baumann in his “In The Hills of Brown” portfolio in 1910. Baumann carved the blocks, which were printed by him with the assistance of Alonzo Allison and his sons on the press of the Brown County Democrat in Nashville, Indiana. A few of the earliest impressions are signed and dated 1910 in black ink within the image. In this color woodcut, Alonzo Allison is in the background selecting type and his sons are in the foreground working the Washington Hand Press and the other holding a brayer used in inking the type.