Autumnal Glory

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1920  

color woodcut 

13 x 13"  

pencil, lower right 

NO 6 OF 100 

pencil titled, lower left 

Chamberlain 75; Baumann 61 

cream laid Zanders Bergisch Gladbach 

published 

artist 

OPSAE314 

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A small herd of sheep, flanked by goats, graze beneath the glowing foliage of cottonwoods dressed in their autumn finery. Notes Gala Chamberlain on page 355 of In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, '"Autumnal Glory" is the seventh title listed under the heading Upper Pecos Valley on Baumann's 1928 letterpress inventory of his color woodcuts. Here, Baumann depicts the stunning autumn foliage of the Upper Pecos Valley while reminding the viewer of the importance the uplands play as open spaces for the grazing of sheep and goats. The Spaniards introduced the sheep to New Mexico, and the Hopis became such resourceful sheepherders that there were two million sheep in New Mexico by 1880.'