Harden Hollow
Gustave Baumann
1927
Color woodcut
9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Other Information
Inscription: Signed lower right
Provenance: Private Collection, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Exhibited: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Print Club of Philadelphia, "First Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints," February 14–26, 1927; Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, "Gustave Baumann: Color Woodblock Prints," March 1-31, 1927; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, "Eighth International Print Makers Exhibition," March 1–31, 1927; New York, New York, Brooklyn Museum, "First Annual Exhibition of American Block Prints," March 6–31, 1927; Chicago, Illinois, Marshall Field Picture Galleries, "Fourth Annual Hoosier Salon," January 19–February 5, 1928; Tucson, Arizona, Temple Art Gallery, Tucson Fine Arts Association, "Exhibition of Color Woodblock Prints by Gustave Baumann," opened February 21, 1928; Dayton, Ohio, Little Gallery, Dayton Art Institute, "Gustave Baumann Prints," February 3–24, 1929; Chicago, Illinois, Marshall Field Picture Galleries, "Sixth Annual Hoosier Salon," January 27–February 12, 1930; Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, "Gustave Baumann: A Retrospective Exhibition of Color Wood Cuts," June 8–July 27, 1952; Indianapolis, Indiana, Indianapolis Museum of Art, "Gustave Baumann: Color Woodblock Prints, 1905-1950," November 3–December 14, 1981; Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, "Gustave Baumann: Hands of a Craftsman, Heart of an Artist," October 3, 1993–April 17, 1994 (exhibition traveled to New York, Palm Springs, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, and Lubbock, Texas). Other examples exhibited.
Literature: Martin F. Krause, Madeline Carol Yurtseven and David Acton, "Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art," Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993, fig. 16, p. 24; Gala Chamberlain, "In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann," Rizzoli Electa, New York, 2019, p. 335 (color, other examples).
Printed in five colors by the artist on cream Zanders laid paper with the Hand-in-Heart watermark, ed. II, 17/125. Other examples of this print may be found in the permanent collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art; Janet Turner Print Museum, California State University, Chico; New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; New York Public Library; and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts. Chamberlain 116, Baumann 16.
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