Ennui in Valhalla: Groundhog and St. Patricks Day Greetings

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1930  

woodcut 

12 5/8 x 11 3/8" image 

unsigned 

not known 

GB / 1930 / with apologies / Ennui in Valhalla / The Baumanns sent no Christmas card 

Chamberlain 305, illustrated on page 514; illustrated as figure 4 on page 159 in "Gustave Baumann: The Artist's Environment"; illustrated on page 52 in "Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards from Holidays Past" 

tan wove paper 

published 

artist 

AB4375 

$2,500.00 

This holiday card is based upon Russell Cheney's 1929 painting "Three Friends" which belongs to the Albuquerque Museum. The figures are Witter Bynner, Clifford "Don" McCarthy (Witter's partner at the time) and Louise Pugh. It is believed that the location of this meeting of friends was the home of Lousie Pugh.