Christmas 1944

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1944  

woodcut printed in turquoise green 

11 1/8 x 6 7/8" image and paper size 

unsigned 

unknown 

We Remember You This Holiday Time/ Jane Ann and Gustave Baumann 

ill. p. 78 in Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past 

cream wove Ansbach 

published 

artist 

AB4120 

SOLD

Baumann's card for 1944 relates to the ongoing World War II. He used flowers with dates rather than stems to tell the current year, and the year World War I ended (1918), but he transformed the stem of the third flower in a question mark for the year in which the world conflict would end.