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Gustave Baumann's Woodcuts

by Abhilasha Singh
Gustave Baumann at New Mexico Museum of Art June 24th, 2011 - March 18th, 2012
Posted 1/8/12

Gustave Baumann lived in Santa Fe until his death in 1971. Many of Baumann’s most popular prints depict the Southwestern landscape and regional traditions of his beloved New Mexico. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century there was a renewed interest in the craft of traditional European printmaking and in the color woodcut prints coming from Japan. Many of Baumann’s prints include asymmetrical compositions, bright colors, curving lines, and patterned surfaces that appear to be... [more]

Landscapes and more

by Abhilasha Singh
Gustave Baumann, Andrew Dasburg, Gerard C. Delano, Arthur Dove, Fremont Ellis, Ed Mell at Owings-Dewey Fine Art - San Francisco St. August 7th, 2009 - September 10th, 2009
Posted 8/15/09

Gustave Baumann (1881-1970) lived and worked in New Mexico for over fifty years. The West provided Baumann with subjects for the majority of his prints which became the basis of his enduring reputation as an American artist. Born in 1881 in Germany, Baumann immigrated to the US by the early 1900's. After a brief time in Chicago, Baumann moved to Brown County, Indiana in 1910. Baumann first visited New Mexico in 1918 and moved to New Mexico full time in 1919. Baumann's images of New Mexico have be... [more]

Santa Fe Legend

by Abhilasha Singh
Gustave Baumann at New Mexico Museum of Art February 17th, 2007 - September 9th, 2010
Posted 8/15/09

A long-term exhibition at the Museum of Art highlights Baumann's many talents, featuring some of his more obscure, yet beautiful, work. Gustave Baumann: A Santa Fe Legend runs indefinitely beginning September 18. 2009, in the Women’s Board Room. Born in Germany in 1881, Baumann eventually settled down in Santa Fe, taking inspiration from the New Mexican countryside for many of his woodblock prints. In 1931, he began carving his “little people”—marionettes that he toured around the state for m... [more]

Gustave Baumann at Owings-Dewey

by Mark FARADAY
Gustave Baumann at Owings-Dewey Fine Art - San Francisco St. March 2nd, 2009 - May 31st, 2009
Posted 4/26/09

Gustave Baumann (1881-1970) lived and worked in New Mexico for more than fifty years and his views of the West provided subjects for the majority of his prints and the basis of his enduring reputation as an American artist. Born in 1881 in Germany, Baumann immigrated to the US by the early 1900's. After a brief stint in Chicago, Baumann moved to Brown County, Indiana in 1910. Baumann first visited New Mexico in 1918 and by 1919 lived year round in Santa Fe. Baumann traveled to Arizona i... [more]