Rain by Gustave Baumann

Rain by Gustave Baumann

Rain

Gustave Baumann

Title

Rain

 
Artist
Year
1938  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
8 1/8 x 8 3/16" image 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
I 3/125 
Annotations
pencil titled & editioned 
Reference
Chamberlain 155; Baumann 118 
Paper
cream Zanders laid with the Hand and Heart watermark 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
AB852 
Price
SOLD
Description
Alternative titles for this piece included "Strange Neighborhood," hinting at Baumann's affectionate amusement of his small family, a band of theatrical adventurers. Included in this image is their German Shepherd, Tosco, peering curiously out of the doorway in the lower left. 'A photograph in the Baumann archive captures Ann and her father stiking a similar pose in a doorway. The figure of Ann has been outlined with pencil, an indication that the image was transferred, possibly in preparation for this woodcut.' - Chamberlain, p. 402, In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann