Night Ceremony

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1948  

color woodcut with aluminum leaf 

8 x 8"  

pencil, lower right 

I 12-125 -48 

titled, lower left 

Chamberlain 156; GB119 

cream laid with hand & heart watermark 

published 

artist 

AB421 

Price On Request 

Once Baumann settled in the southwest in 1918, he seems to have immediately begun collecting Indian kachina dolls and pottery. He respected the customs and ceremonies of the various pueblos and his attendance at the their dances was often noted in The New Mexican. In this seemingly abstract image, Baumann plays with potsherd shapes to create dancing kachinas.