The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Hollyhock Garden

Hollyhock Garden

c. 1914–20
(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Image: 23.5 x 28.7 cm (9 1/4 x 11 5/16 in.); with borders: 27.2 x 31.8 cm (10 11/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Sheet: 29.7 x 36.2 cm (11 11/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
© Ann Baumann Trust
Location: not on view

Description

Baumann began Hollyhock Garden around 1914 when living in Brown County, Indiana. After settling in Santa Fe, he reworked the scene in about 1919, adding Southwestern touches, such as transforming the wooden Indiana farmhouse with a shingle roof into adobe buildings with tile roofs. He must have referenced Hollyhock Garden in 1927 when making the color woodcut Hoosier Garden, since there are many correspondences between them, including the picket fence with its profusion of yellow and orange flowers and the porch chair, which lurks ghostlike beneath a thin layer of paint in the drawing.
  • Ann Baumann, Santa Rosa, CA
    February 27, 2006
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).
    Imagining the Garden. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24, 2015-March 6, 2016).
  • {{cite web|title=Hollyhock Garden|url=false|author=Gustave Baumann|year=c. 1914–20|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2005.466