Greeting Card for Richard and Caroline Pfäffle

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1919  

two-color woodcut 

3 1/8 x 2 5/8" image & text inside card 

unsigned 

unknown 

inscribed in the block: Christ / mas / 1919/ Caroline / and / Richard / Pfäffle / send you / holiday greetings 

Chamberlain 252; ill. p. 37 in "Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past." 

cream Zanders Bergisch Gladbach laid 

published 

artist 

AB4369 

$750.00 

The Pfäffles owned San Gabriel Ranch in Alcalde, New Mexico. They commissioned Baumann to produce an advertising brochure for their dude ranch. Baumann used this image as one of the twenty-one illustrations in the brochure.