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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

San Geronimo Taos

San Geronimo Taos

1924
(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Image: 18.2 x 15.2 cm (7 3/16 x 6 in.); Sheet: 41.8 x 34.3 cm (16 7/16 x 13 1/2 in.)
© Ann Baumann Trust
Catalogue raisonné: Chamberlain 96; Acton, Krause & Yurtseven 122
Location: not on view

Description

Held on September 30, the feast day of San Geronimo (Saint Jerome) is celebrated annually with a festival at the Taos Pueblo. Green boughs are carried at sundown on the dance day before the fiesta and during the daylong festivities celebrating the harvest. Baumann had a deep respect for the traditions and customs of Native Americans. He collected pottery and other art produced at various pueblos and often attended ceremonial dances. In 1922 he joined the board of the newly constituted New Mexico Association on Indian Affairs and vigorously protested a bill that was being considered, later recalled, to take land and water rights away from the Pueblos.
  • Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 39.
  • Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).
  • {{cite web|title=San Geronimo Taos|url=false|author=Gustave Baumann|year=1924|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.35