Singing Woods by Gustave Baumann

Singing Woods by Gustave Baumann

Singing Woods

Gustave Baumann

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Title

Singing Woods

 
Artist
Year
1928 / printed 1967 
Technique
color woodcut 
Image Size
12 7/8 x 12 7/8" image 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
unnumbered 
Annotations
none 
Reference
Chamberlain 128; Baumann 90 
Paper
unidentified cream wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
AB583 
Price
$18,000.00 
Description

Singing Woods was first published in 1928 after a tempera study created during Baumann’s long road trip to California in March and April of 1928. He would often begin his coastal trip in San Diego and drive to the village of Laguna Beach where he would camp for several days while filling his sketchbooks. This locale of Singing Woods is Laguna Beach. On the road, Baumann wrote to his wife Jane on 4 April to report his progress: “—well either I am crazy or I was crazy last year or this part of Cal. is really different from the Los A. [Los Angeles] blight further north—its Eucalyptus trees are a different variety from those in Phoenix still more lacy and with the full moon shining through them. I almost enthused but I’ll reserve that until the stuff is tucked into my portfolio—two weeks of flops make me a suspicious woman.”

 
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