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Greeting Card for 1937: Hollerday Greetings by Gustave Baumann
Greeting Card for 1937: Hollerday Greetings
Gustave Baumann
Title
Greeting Card for 1937: Hollerday Greetings
Artist
Gustave Baumann
1881 - 1971 (biography)Year
1937
Technique
woodcut, text and images printed from one block
Image Size
6 1/4 x 8 3/4" image and text; inside image 6-1/8 x 4-3/4"
Signature
unsigned
Edition Size
unknown
Annotations
Reference
Chamberlain 338, illustrated page 538 "In A Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann"; illustrated p. 67 in "Gustave Baumann and Friends Artist Cards from Holidays Past"
Paper
cream wove Ansbach
State
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
AB4331
Price
$2,000.00
Description
Hollerday Greetings was Baumann’s holiday greeting card for 1937. It was printed from one block on cream wove Ansbach paper. The image of a Christmas tree ornamented with owls and toucans relates to two painted wooden sculptures of owls and toucans perched on cacti. These Baumann sculptures are in the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art.