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April

1930, printed c. 1936

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut with aluminum leaf
Support
Zanders laid paper
Measurements
Image: 33.2 x 32.9 cm (13 1/16 x 12 15/16 in.); Sheet: 41.3 x 36.5 cm (16 1/4 x 14 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.401
Catalogue raisonné
Chamberlain 135
Copyright
© Ann Baumann Trust
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

April is the second woodcut (Singing Trees of 1928 was the first) where aluminum leaf rather than a printed color was employed for the sky. The glittering background enlivens an unmodulated field and offsets the delicacy of the pink and white flowering fruit trees. There are many precedents for metallic backgrounds, including medieval Italian paintings like Ugolino di Nerio da Siena’s Virgin and Child with Saints, from about 1320 (on view in gallery 110A).

April

1930, printed c. 1936

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
America

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