Artist: Gustave Baumann (German/American, 1881 - 1971).
Title: "Deer Hunt".
Medium: Original color woodcut.
Date: Composed 1939. Printed 1939.
Dimensions: Overall size: 8 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (216 x 730 mm). Image size: 5 1/2 x 26 7/8 in. (140 x 683 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in pencil, lower right; signed with the red seal/signature stamp, lower left. A proof impression aside from the proposed edition of 480 (of which all were printed?). Cream wove handmade paper. Full margins with deckle edges left and right. Fine, strong impression. Baumann cut and printed the blocks himself. Although most of his carving was done in basswood, the blocks for this woodcut were carved from common pine. Fine condition; two sheets joined together, with folds as issued. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Comment(s): Baumann first created this image in 1919 and based it on a pictograph he found in a cave in Frijoles Canyon, New Mexico. He revisited it in 1939 and cut a virtually identical image in a slightly smaller size for inclusion in his “Frijoles Canyon Pictographs.” Another impression of this 1939 edition woodcut was offered recently at Santa Fe Art Auction with estimates of $2,000/$3,000. An impression of the 1919 edition was included in the “Gustave Baumann Collection” exhibition at the Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, December 28th, 2018 to May 10th, 2019. Image copyright © The Estate of Gustave Baumann. [29534-3-1600]

Fine condition; two sheets joined together, with folds as issued