Gustave Baumann
American, 1881-1971
Harden Hollow
INV-9344
Gustave Baumann
American, 1881-19711912
Harden Hollow
Gustave Baumann American, 1881-1971 →woodcutprint
Date
1912
Medium
Color woodcut on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 50.2 × 67.7 cm (19 13/16 × 26 11/16 in.); Sheet: 54.8 × 72 cm (21 5/8 × 28 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
The William Gold Hibbard Memorial
One from a series of four large prints, Harden Hollow displays the rolling hills in Brown County, Indiana, where the artist lived from 1910 to 1917. A farmer works diligently in the foreground, with buildings scattered throughout the undulating countryside, which is bathed in light that forces the eye deeper into the composition. Baumann included this work along with seven other color woodblock prints at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, where he was awarded a gold medal.
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