In a Modern Rendering

The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann

by Gala Chamberlain

essays by Nancy E. Green, Thomas Leech 

First edition.  New York:  Rizzoli Electa, 2019  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD++ condition.

• Illustrated covers are mostly clean, with inked text and inset label with color illustration.  Corners are sharp.  
• Spine has brick red and gray text and is bright with a bump to tail end.  See photos. 
• Binding is tight. 
• Custom patterned end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Frontispiece is present.
• Illustrations are bright and clear. 
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a little shelfwear at foot. 
• PS2025.1210

648 pages. 9.5 x 12 inches

ISBN: 978-0-8478-6472-0

First Edition, hardcover catalogue raisonné of the color woodcuts by Gustave Baumann (1881-1971).  Full color reproductions, catalogue entries, plus further essays.  Cloth boards feature a laid-in image by the artist.  Save for a bump to the foot of the spine and small evidence of shelf sitting, Fine.  Very Scarce in commerce.  

This complete record of the artist's printed works, three decades in the making, includes early etchings and linocuts, 182 editioned color woodcuts, and hundreds of printed ephemera.  More than 1,000 precise reproductions, many published for the first time, are illuminated by essays tracing Baumann's biography, techniques, and artistic practices.  This monumental publication allows for an unprecedented appreciation of one of the finest color-woodblock artists of the twentieth century.

Gustave Baumann was a master color-woodcut artist whose prints helped form a popular image of America's natural beauty that has endured from the first half of the twentieth century to today.  Endowed with a deft hand and an eye for luminous color, Baumann transformed American woodblock printing over his seventy-year career.  An expressive carver, Baumann handled the entire printing process himself, making him a key figure in the American Arts and Crafts movement.  German-born, Baumann settled in Santa Fe and became a central figure in the artistic community.  

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