Lonesome Pine Conference

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1945  

color serigraph 

8 7/8 x 14 7/8" image 

unsigned 

unknown 

Lone Pine / Conference / to / promote / uphold and / perpetuate / the interests / of Santa Claus / Among the lesser delegates / were the Gustave Baumanns / Santa Fe, New Mexico 

Chamberlain 358; illustrated p. 81 in "Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past." 

ivory Van Gelder Zonen laid 

published 

artist 

AB4366 

$1,200.00 

Jean Moss notes in "Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past" that in 1945 we could get back to frivolous things. If one views Baumann's lifetime of work and writing, it is hard to imagine that he could find time for frivolity. His archive at the New Mexico History Museum gives us insight into his sense of fun. With this card Baumann is promoting, upholding, and perpetuating the interests of Santa Claus.