Holiday card for 1970: In One Door and Out the Other by Gustave Baumann

Holiday card for 1970: In One Door and Out the Other by Gustave Baumann

Holiday card for 1970: In One Door and Out the Other

Gustave Baumann

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Title

Holiday card for 1970: In One Door and Out the Other

 
Artist

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)
Year
1970  
Technique
woodcut printed in color from one block 
Image Size
5 7/8 x 8 1/2" image 
Signature
unsigned 
Edition Size
unknown 
Annotations
 
Reference
Chamberlain 386, illustrated on page 566 "In A Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann"; also illustrated page 107 in "Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past" 
Paper
ivory wove ARAK paper 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
AB4362 
Price
SOLD
Description

This holiday card was the last one Baumann produced and it sends the message with the text "In one door and out the other," that he sensed the end was closing in. Despite arthritis in his hands and failing eyesight, Baumann managed to produce a creative and stylized card.