Rain in the Mountains

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1925 /1956 

color woodcut 

9 3/8 x 11-1/4" 

pencil, lower right 

38-50 R-C 

titled in pencil in lower left, dated -56 after the signature 

Baumann 76 

cream laid Zanders paper with Hand-in-Heart watermark 

published 

artist 

AB4087 

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The monsoon season in New Mexico begins in May and delivers heavy rain by early July. It brings dramatic cloud patterns and the rain delivers much needed moisture to the sun-baked landscape. Baumann referred to it as "walking rain" and deftly captured its drama in Rain in the Mountains. regionalist