Spring Blossoms, 1919

  • Gustave Baumann, American, 1881-1971

Woodcut printed in color ink on wove paper

  • Image: 9 5/8 × 11 1/4 inches (24.4 × 28.6 cm) Sheet: 11 1/8 × 12 3/4 inches (28.3 × 32.4 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

20.51

Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: Gustave [stamp] Baumann 19

Stamp, in the center of the signature: [vertical oval monogram stamped in blue]

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: Spring blossoms | No-3 Inscribed, lower center: no 30/100

1920-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Chamberlain, Gala, ed. In a Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 2019, pp. 87, 193-195, cat. 45.

Gustave Baumann, Spring Blossoms, 1919, woodcut printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 20.51.