The Big Day

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1938  

color woodcut 

6 7/8 x 9 1/4" image 

pencil signed, lower right 

II 20-125 

pencil titled & editioned 

Chamberlain 11.2; Baumann 121 

cream Zanders laid with the Hand and Heart watermark 

published 

artist 

AB847 

SOLD

Baumann carved and printed this image first in 1909 under the title "Country Circus," (Chamberlain cat. 11.1) and was among the last few images recorded by Baumann under the heading Chicago. As Baumann was wont to do when he revisited an image, the palette and title changed dramatically between the first edition and the second--printed nearly three decades apart--from an autumnal burnt orange and gray, to a lively grass green and plum.