Hand of a Craftsman: The Woodcut Technique of Gustave Baumann
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing.
The work of German-born printmaker Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) who emigrated to the United States in 1891 and worked in Chicago and Nashville, Indiana before settling in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1918. There, the indigenous peoples and natural world of the Southwest began to influence his work. Baumann saved many of the studies, trial impressions, and notes produced in the creation of his color woodcuts. Materials created in preparation for his six-color woodcut Grand Canon (1919) are included here.
In addition to studies and progressive proofs that reveal the complex, highly exacting process of color relief printmaking, Hand of a Craftsman presents early prints from Baumann's German, Chicago, and Indiana periods and an array of works created in New Mexico, Arizona, and coastal California.
Item #902579ISBN: 0890132976
9-1/2 x 11", pumpkin-colored cloth with silver print, mauve endpapers, viii, 136pp, chronology, selected works from the collection, notes, glossary, bibliography, works by Gustave Baumann, credits, 37 text figures, 32 figures illustrating Baumann's creation of Grand Canon (1910), 26 full-page color plates.
Very fine in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
Price: $100.00