Spring Freshet

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1916 / printed about 1931 

color woodcut 

10 7/8 x 9-3/4" image size 

pencil signed, lower right 

19-120 

titled, lower left 

Chamberlain 38; Baumann 3 

cream Zanders laid with the Hand-in-Heart watermark 

published 

artist 

AB4081 

SOLD

The alternative title to this piece is "Martins Are Back," a nod to one of the signs of spring in the Midwest, the Martin swallows, which appear in the upper left quadrant of the image. In the mid-ground is the Hetherington Cabin, built in 1860 and still standing. This impression was used to illustrate the third and final edition in In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann (cat. 38.2). Noted Baumann, "The road up Jackson's Branch to the Hetherington Cabin wandered over a creek bed with limestone steps. On this occasion the water making little pools trickled over them on its way up to the river." (p. 180)