The Blacksmith Shop

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1910 -1915 

color woodcut 

9 x 13 3/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

unnumbered from an edition of 100 

pencil titled in lower left; dated 1915 after the signature in lower right 

Chamberlain 23 

fine fibrous wove Japon paper 

published 

artist 

AB4224 

SOLD

One of twelve color woodcuts originally published by Baumann in his “In The Hills of Brown” portfolio in 1910. The color woodcuts depict the scenic beauty of the isolated village of Nashville in Southern Indiana and its environs. With deference, Baumann also depicted the inhabitants going about their daily routines. Baumann carved the blocks, which were printed by him with the assistance of Alonzo Allison and his sons on the press of the Brown County Democrat in Nashville, Indiana. A few of the earliest impressions are signed and dated 1910 in black ink within the image.