Artist: Gustave Baumann (German/American, 1881 - 1971).
Title: "Wings of Prophecy".
Medium: Original color woodcut.
Date: Composed 1939. Printed 1939.
Dimensions: Overall size: 5 3/8 x 6 in. (137 x 152 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed with the red seal/signature stamp, lower right. A proof impression aside from the proposed edition of 480 (of which all were printed?). Cream wove handmade paper. Fine, strong impression. Baumann cut and printed the block himself. Although most of his carving was done in basswood, the block for this woodcut was carved from common pine. Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Provenance: Private collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Comment(s): Baumann first created this image in 1939 and based it on a pictograph he found in a cave in Frijoles Canyon, New Mexico. He printed a portion of the block and included it in his “Frijoles Canyon Pictographs.” Baumann revisited it in 1951 and cut a virtually identical image (in reverse) in a larger size. An impression of the later edition was offered at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, on November 3, 2015, with pre-sale estimates of $3,000/5,000. A 1951 edition impression also 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. [29537-1-300]

Fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board