Hidden Meaning by Gustave Baumann
Hidden Meaning
Gustave Baumann
Title
Hidden Meaning
Artist
Gustave Baumann
1881 - 1971 (biography)Year
1962
Technique
color woodcut
Image Size
12 x 12 7/8" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
21-100 62
Annotations
titled, lower left; dated after the edition number
Reference
Chamberlain 190; Baumann 150
Paper
cream German Ansbach wove
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
AB717
Price
$6,000.00
Description
Notes Chamberlain in In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, this abstract imagery relates to the pictographs shown in Baumann's woodcut "The Deer Hunt" of 1919 (Chamberlain cat. 64) or those in his book Frijoles Canyon Pictographs, 1939 (cat. 348). According to his daughter Ann, Baumann remarked that this image would appeal only to his psychologist friends.
"Hidden Meaning" was the last of Baumann's editioned color woodcuts, carved and printed at age 80.