Rose Farm
1919
Color woodcut
9 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches
Other Information
Framed: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 inches
Inscription: Signed lower right
Provenance: With Steven Thomas, Inc., Woodstock, Vermont (label verso).
Exhibited: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, "Wood Block Prints in Color by American Artists," November 20–December 31, 1919; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, "Exhibition of Wood Block Prints by Gustave Baumann," December 1–31, 1919; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, "Wood Block Prints in Color by American Artists," April 9–28, 1920; Albuquerque, New Mexico, Elks Club, "An Exhibition of Etchings and Block Prints by B. J. O. Nordfelt and Gustave Baumann," May 4–15, 1920; Rochester, New York, "Wood-block Prints by Gustave Baumann," Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, December 1923–January 1924; Washington, D.C., United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, "Wood Block Prints in Color by Gustave Baumann," October 2–25, 1926; Tucson, Arizona, Temple Art Gallery, Tucson Fine Arts Association, "Exhibition of Color Woodblock Prints by Gustave Baumann," opened February 21, 1928; Chicago, Illinois, "First International Exhibition of Lithography and Wood Engraving," Art Institute of Chicago, December 5, 1929–January 26, 1930; Richmond, Indiana, Richmond Art Association, "Color Prints by Gustave Baumann," November, 1930; Indianapolis, Indiana, John Herron Art Institute, "Color Prints by Gustave Baumann," January 1–February 7, 1931; 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 (1881-1971)," 1978; Mount Vernon, Illinois, Mitchell Museum, "Seventh Annual Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition: Color Woodcuts by Gustave Baumann," September 27–October 26, 1980; Topeka, Kansas, Topeka Public Library, "Gustave Baumann: Color Woodcuts," May 17–June 17, 1981. Other examples exhibited.
Literature: Acton, David, "Hand of a Craftsman: The Woodcut Technique of Gustave Baumann," Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996, reprod. in color, plate 9, p. 99 (another example illustrated); Gala Chamberlain, "In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann," Rizzoli Electa, New York, 2019, p. 242-243 (color, other versions and examples). Chamberlain 69, Bauman 9.
Note: Printed in six colors by the artist on cream Zanders Bergisch Gladbach laid paper. Edition I, 16/100. From a projected edition of 100, it is thought that only about 49 were printed. The subject is the farm of Earl and Henry Rose located in a valley near a state park in Brown County, Indiana. A photograph of the farm exists in the Rose family archives. Other versions of this woodcut are in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Eiteljorg Museum, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Washington, D.C.; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the New Mexico Museum of Art; the New York Public Library; the Rowley Library, University of Chicago; and the Worcester Art Museum. Good condition.
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