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In the Hills O' Brown: The Town of Nashville

1910, printed 1914

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
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Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Japanese paper
Measurements
Image: 23.2 x 33.6 cm (9 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 26.1 x 35.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.424.11
Catalogue raisonné
Chamberlain 18
Edition
100
Copyright
© Ann Baumann Trust
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Baumann learned about Brown County, Indiana, from members of the Palette and Chisel Club, who relished the hilly scenery and isolated location, as depicted in this color woodcut. In 1910 Baumann arrived in the small farming town of Nashville, which was sparsely populated, old-fashioned, picturesque, and cheap, where he was inspired by fresh motifs: “[U]nexpected glimpses of landscape started visions of innumerable pictures. . . . Here was a new sketching ground that had not been covered with paint rags and palette scrapings as mute evidence of previous discourses. This was a new experience. I felt at home.” Baumann stayed six and a half years.
A horizontal color woodcut depicts a village nestled within rolling hills. In the foreground on the left, a large tree with prominent, branching limbs anchors a grassy slope beside a wooden fence. A winding path leads from the bottom center toward a cluster of buildings. In the middle ground, a white tower rises above dense, rounded trees. The scene is rendered in muted browns and greens under an ocher sky with wispy white clouds.

In the Hills O' Brown: The Town of Nashville

1910, printed 1914

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
America

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