Cottonwoods

 

Gustave Baumann

  1881 - 1971 (biography)

1927 /1931 

color woodcut 

10 13/16 x 9 11/16" image 

pencil, lower right 

31 of 120  

titled, lower left 

GB83, Chamberlain 119.2 

cream Zanders laid with the Hand and Heart watermark 

published 

artist 

AB785 

$9,000.00 

From the second edition printed in 1931, a departure in mood and color from its 1927 predecessor makes this "Cottonwoods" a strong representation of late fall, with a simplified palette and a decluttering of the scene. Chamberlain quotes Baumann: "Scraggly cottonwoods, white and gaunt with dark scrubby pinon and cedar intersecting the long lines of the flat mesa. ...Other than these scarcely a sign of life except newly made trails leading to the ever present meeting house or morada, in this, the country of the Penitente." (p. 341, In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann)