Gustave Baumann
Title: Mending the Seine, 1915,
Artist: Gustave Baumann (German-American 1881-1971)
Medium: Gouache over Graphite on Brown Wove Paper
Gift of Ann Baumann, 2006.236
Image Courtesy: The Worcester Art Museum
Sketches from Here and There
Gustave Baumann Gouaches
Worcester Art Museum
April 28 - July 29, 2007
The Worcester Art Museum received a significant gift of prints and drawings from the Baumann Estate in
2006, which makes the Museum one of the two chief repositories of the artist’s
work. Now many of these works will form an exhibit, Sketches from Here and There
Title: Country Bridge, Brown County, Indiana, 1915,
Artist: Gustave Baumann (German-American 1881-1971)
Medium: Gouache over Graphite on Brown Wove Paper
Gift of Ann Baumann, 2006.236
Image Courtesy: The Worcester Art Museum
German native Gustave Baumann grew up in Chicago and was
an apprentice in a print shop. Later he worked at a design studio, while attending art classes at night. During 1904-5, he spent a year studying in Munich at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts. It was there that Baumann learned
the techniques of color relief printmaking, then used for advertising and
illustration. He returned to Chicago and spent several years as a commercial
artist before deciding to commit himself to fine printmaking.
The artist eventually settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His color
woodcut views of the Southwest continue to find popularity.
Sketches from Here and There
Gustave Baumann Gouaches
Worcester Art Museum:
April 28 - July 29, 2007
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