Gustave Baumann(German-American, 1881 - 1971)
Wash Barnes Cabin, 1912color woodcut, edition of 50
signed lower right: Gustave [hand-in-heart chop] Baumann
titled lower left: Wash Barnes Cabin
initialed lower left in image: © GB / DS - SC
The "Washington Barnes Cabin" was one of the four large-format color woodcuts of Brown County, Indiana that Baumann created in 1912. He advertised them as suitable for school decoration, but eventually he returned his attention to smaller, home scaled images.
Washington and "Ma" Barnes have become part of the folklore of Brown County. As one story goes, the couple physically divided their cabin rather than getting a divorce. Mary ("Ma") Barnes lived in the front of the cabin and Wash in the back. When Wash died, his body had to be taken out of a window, as Ma would not allow him to pass through the front door. (Annex Galleries)
19 3/4 x 26 5/8 in. (50.17 x 67.63 cm.), Frame: 29 7/8 x 36 x 1 3/4 in. (75.88 x 91.44 x 4.45 cm.)
Private Collection, New Mexico
Literature:
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. 32.
Condition
The print is in overall very good condition. Framed under glass. Frame in good condition, with some bumping and gilt loss.
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