| Details | | Publication Date: | 1993-10-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 11.0 in | | Width: | 9.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 38.4 oz |
Publisher's Note Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) created color woodcut prints of American rural landscapes & experiences that have reserved for him a place among his country's most beloved artists. As a young commercial artist in Chicago, he studied nightly at the Art Institute, as he put it, "to get nearer to art." Refining his artistic direction in Munich, he created the first woodcuts in a medium that would bring him international recognition. After stays in Brown County, Indiana, New York & Provincetown, Baumann travelled to New Mexico in 1918. He lived in Santa Fe for more than fifty years, making countless side trips throughout the West. His prints are awash in brilliant, hand-ground pigments, simple & elegant studies rooted in a rural America that manages at once to be both delicate & rugged, personal & mythic. With 120 exquisite color plates, this is the first book of Baumann's stunning oeuvre, published to coincide with a major travelling retrospective of his work.
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