An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1932  

color woodcut 

6 1/2 x 6 7/16" image 

initialled in block, lower left, unsigned as published 

artist's proof, outside the published edition of around 3000 

 

Colophon, Volume III, Part 12, 1932 

ivory laid 

published 

Elmer Adler, published in The Colophon, vol. III, 1932 

AB3047 

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This impression is a proof on a full sheet of laid paper, from the artist's estate and was printed by Baumann. The published edition was printed by the publishers on a wove paper. "An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo" was commissioned by The Colophon, Part 12, Issue 7, 1932. The Colophon, subtitled A Book Collectors' Quarterly or A quarterly for booklovers, was a limited edition quarterly periodical begun late in 1929 and continuing in various guises until 1950. It was the brainchild of Elmer Adler (1884–1962), founder of Pynson Printers of New York City. His idea was that various printers around the world would be willing to contribute their time and expertise to produce signatures (articles) using their own choice of papers, typography and illustration. These articles would then be bound together in boards by Pynson Printers and marketed to up to 3,000 subscribers