The Big Day by Gustave Baumann

The Big Day by Gustave Baumann

The Big Day

Gustave Baumann

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Title

The Big Day

 
Artist
Year
1938  
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
6 7/8 x 9 1/4" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
II 14-125 
Annotations
pencil titled, lower left, and editioned, lower right 
Reference
Chamberlain 11; Baumann 121 
Paper
cream Zanders laid with Hand-in-Heart watermark 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
AB4358 
Price
$5,000.00 
Description

The circus was a major source of entertainment in America in the early 1900s. It was very big business and no fewer than eight circus companies brought their big tents and animal acts to Illinois. These companies included Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show, Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, Cole Brothers World Toured Shows, Gentry Brothers Circus, Hagenbeck-Wallace Shows, Miller Brothers, Norris and Rowe Circus, and Ringling Brothers. It is unknown which circus company Baumann depicted but it had “Wild Animals in Startling Acts.” This was serious entertainment to the town and city folks and men and women dressed in their Sunday finery.

 
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