Hoosier Garden by Gustave Baumann

Hoosier Garden by Gustave Baumann

Hoosier Garden

Gustave Baumann

Title

Hoosier Garden

 
Artist
Year
1927 /1961 
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
12 3/8 x 13 1/8" image size 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
R.C. 1961 60-107 
Annotations
pencil titled, dated in the lower margin; with artist's hand in heart chop in lower margin. 
Reference
Baumann 14 
Paper
ivory CPM Fabriano Italy laid 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
AB4084 
Price
SOLD
Description

Hoosier Garden, also known as Grandma Battin's Garden, is one of Gustave Baumann's enduring images in color woodcut. The narrative story of the woman named Battin who planted the garden in Nashville, Indiana remains untold but the pictorial story of her simple wood cabin adorned with a bountiful and joyous garden spilling with hollyhocks, marigolds and morning glories is skillfully articulated by Baumann.

The tempera and the seven basswood blocks are in the collection of the Albuquerque Museum. The printing of the first edition commenced in January 1927 after Baumann was well established in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In June 1961, Baumann printed an edition of 107 impressions from recut blocks. These impressions are often dated and annotated with an R. C. to indicate the recutting of some of the blocks. Baumann titled this work both "Grandma Battin's Garden" or "Hoosier Garden" depending on his whimsy.