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Corn Dance

c. 1924

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Culture
America
Medium
tempera on brown paper
Support
Brown paper
Measurements
Image: 16.5 x 14.3 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 28 x 24.2 cm (11 x 9 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.461
Copyright
© Ann Baumann Trust
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

From 1913 Baumann executed tempera studies in rich, opaque colors, usually on brown paper, in preparation for making prints. In the case of Corn Dance, he made many changes translating this drawing into a woodcut. The print emphasizes fewer, larger dancers whose costumes have been elaborated with patterning. Subsidiary figures were eliminated and the space was compressed, increasing the size of the mountain and reducing the sky, which had occupied half the background in the tempera. The composition was cut into the blocks in the same direction as the drawing and so is reversed when printed.

Corn Dance

c. 1924

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
America

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