Winter Corral

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1940  

color woodcut 

12 3/4 x 12 3/4" image 

pencil, lower right 

I 20-125 

titled in pencil, lower left 

Chamberlain 160; Baumann 124 

cream Zanders laid paper with the Hand-in-Heart watermark 

from the first edition of 125 that was never completed; only 26 known impressions printed from the blocks before they were discarded about 1949. 

artist 

AB4215 

SOLD

Illustrated on page 411 of In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann", this impression (cat. 160) is from the first edition. Two more altered editions (cats. 160.2 and 160.3) as well as a discarded set of earlier blocks explains Baumann's keen desire to properly capture the feeling of a scene. Chamberlain writes of "Winter Corral," 'Baumann found this graceful tree and rustic corral at Pojoaque Pueblo, north of Santa Fe.' (p. 413)