Peppy New Year Greeting card for 1940

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1939  

color woodcut 

6 1/4 x 8 1/4" image & paper 

unsigned 

unknown 

 

Chamberlain 353, illustrated page 547 "In A Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann:;also illustrated pages 50 and 69 in" Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past"; illustrated as figure 12 on page 100 in "Gustave Baumann 

Ansbach wove 

 

artist 

AB4332 

$1,000.00 

The imagery for Baumann’s holiday card for 1940, Peppy New Year, relates to his book Frijoles Canyon Pictographs and plays on the theme of the flat-footed Navajo goatherd who wears a ten-gallon hat and plays a flute to his herd.