Greeting Card for 1925: Toot Toot

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1924  

woodcut 

5 5/8 x 10 1/6" image 

unsigned 

unknown 

Toot Toot / Here comes / the 19125 / Greetings / Gustave Baumann / Santa Fe N. M. 

Chamberlain 282, illustrated page 505 "In A Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann"; also illustrated page 36 "Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past"; and illustrated as figure 9. on page 97 of "Gustave Baumann: The  

thin buff wove with reflective silver coating 

published 

artist 

AB4370 

$800.00 

This holiday card is a prime example of Baumann's sense of fun and his fine sense of design. Hadley Jerman Bruss refers to Baumann's animated lettering in her essay "Signs of His Time: Gustave Baumann's Woodcut Lettering" for the exhibition catalogue "Gustave Baumann: The Artist's Environment."