The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 26, 2024
Spring New Mexico
1925, printed 1936
(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Image: 24 x 28.7 cm (9 7/16 x 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.1 x 43.2 cm (13 7/16 x 17 in.)
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.444
© Ann Baumann Trust
Catalogue raisonné: Chamberlain 102
Location: not on view
Description
Baumann was attracted to the crystalline light and mountain scenery of the Southwest. He was always searching for novel subject matter, like the adobe architecture and flowering trees in Spring New Mexico, and was enticed since “all of the Southwest was virgin territory to the artist.” Appreciating the cultural diversity that gave the area its special ambiance, Baumann noted about Santa Fe, “The town as a whole gave me the feeling of a fairly well-adjusted mixture of Spanish and Anglo culture, with the Indian as an interrupted civilization still pervading it all. It made for a unique situation not likely to be found anywhere else.”- Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).
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