Indian Pottery Old and New
Santa Fe, NM: The Press at the Palace of the Governors, 2020. Limited edition. Slim octavo [21 cm] Sewn handmade paper covers by Thomas Leech which include Baumann's mouse-chewed tool belt (too far gone to restore), New Mexican mica, and recycled trimmings from some of his other papers. Housed in a portfolio folder of light brown cloth over boards with a paper title label on the front board. Fine. Item #71343
Of one hundred forty-five copies printed, this is number 40.
This book was printed in November, 2020 at the Press at the Palace of the Governors on Baumann's remaining supply of Arak paper made by the Whitehead and Aliger Company. Arranged and cut on wood by Gustave Baumann. Gustave Baumann carved these woodcut studies of Indian pottery in 1919. His blocks are now in the collection of the New Mexico History Museum as part of a growing archive documenting many facets of the artist's life and times.
German-born printmaker and painter Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) called Santa Fe, New Mexico home for the last fifty years of his life. At the time of his arrival in New Mexico, Baumann was already highly esteemed for his woodblock prints. Like other Santa Fe artists and craftspeople of the period, Baumann designed his own house with artfully carved posts and lintels, and a workshop detached from the house. He continued to play a major role in the art and graphics scene in Santa Fe well into the 1960s, making fastidious, complicated, and beautiful woodcut prints unsurpassed in color-relief printmaking.
Price: $1,000.00