The Deerhunt (after Pictograph of Pre Columbian period in cave at Frijole Canon New Mexico)

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1919  

color woodcut diptych 

19 7/8 x 6 1/2" image size of both prints 

green ink, lower right 

no. 9/100 in green ink 

copyright 1919 in pencil on left image; also inscribed in green ink: The Deer Hunt after Pictography of Pre Columbian period in cave at Frijole Canon New Mexico, left side of diptych' also inscribed by Baumann near the lower left sheet edge: "Join close f 

Chamberlain 64, Baumann 66 

cream Zanders laid with the Bergisch Gladbach watermark 

published, first edition 

artist 

AB402 

SOLD

This image shows the two separate plates, equal in size, and what they would look like mounted with edges aligned as Baumann had intended. These petroglyphs were found in the cave dwellings of the indigenous tribes of the Southwest. Said Baumann of his experience in searching for and studying the petroglyphs, "It seems that the prehistoric Indians were very modest in their housing demands. The door opening was so small you had to crawl through it. The ceiling so low you could not stand up so they must have spent their time in the caves just sitting and staring at the blank wall waiting for the weather to change so they could continue their outdoor life. In the meanwhile they talked of some ceremony that had taken place or about somebody that lived three caves up the canyon that impersonated a Koshare exceptionally well. Then somebody that had taken part in a deer hunt on the plateau above the canyon explained it by drawing out the whole sequence. Who knows now but that it was one way of educating their youngsters or telling a bedtime story." - Chamberlain, p. 234, In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann