Gustave Baumann: Southwest Landscapes Boxed Notecard Assortment

Gustave Baumann found his true home in New Mexico when he moved to Santa Fe in 1918. The burgeoning arts community welcomed the successful printmaker, who was inspired by other transplanted artists as well as by Native American potters and painters. His images grew more complex as he devised innovative techniques to create luminous prints with warm, blended hues, capturing the spirit of the Southwestern people, their rituals, and the unique surrounding landscape. Contains five each of the following notecards: Malapai, 1927 Cholla and Saguaro, 1928 Pines—Grand Cañon, 1920 Hondo, 1931

Gustave Baumann

Gustave Baumann (American, 1881–1971) drew on the invigorating influences of European and American artists, along with watercolor painters and Native American potters, to produce complex color woodblock prints that reveal a country both delicate and rugged, personal and mythic. Brought from Germany to Chicago as a boy, Baumann supported his family financially while still a teenager, when he worked at an engraver’s and discovered an affinity for printmaking. He took night classes in art and saved enough money to study block printing in Munich. Back in the United States, his travels brought him to New Mexico, where he perfected his signature style and for more than 50 years captured the crystalline light and rich colors of the Southwest with affection and subtlety.