Gustave Baumann(German-American, 1881 - 1971)
Cherry Bloom, 1917color woodcut, edition 49 of 100
signed lower right: Gustave [Swanli chop] Baumann
editioned lower right: NO 49/100
titled lower left: Cherry bloom
The locale of this woodcut is Wyoming, New York, at "Hillside," the summer home and part-time artists' haven owned by Lydia Avery Cooley Ward, a noted Chicago socialite and influential arts patron. Baumann spent the summer of 1917 at Hillside as a teacher and had plans to open his Swanli Press studio there. As seen in the lower right of the print, he developed his "Swanli" chop for his color woodcuts. However, the decided against opening the studio and he abandoned the Swanli chop and other experimental chops in favor of his Hand and Heart chop, found on his later work. (Annex Galleries)
9 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (24.45 x 28.58 cm.), Frame: 29 1/8 x 23 1/8 x 3/4 in. (73.98 x 58.74 x 1.91 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Literature:
Baumann Inventory No. 20
Gala Chamberlain, Nancy E. Green, and Thomas Leech, In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann: A Catalogue Raisonné, Rizzoli Electa, 2019, No. 46.
Condition
The print is in overall very good to excellent condition. Framed under acrylic. Frame in very good condition.
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