The Print Shop, from In the Hills o' Brown
Gustave Baumann
1910
- Medium
- Color woodcut on ivory Japanese paper, tipped onto cream Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Image/block: 22.7 × 33.4 cm (8 15/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Primary support: 26.2 × 33.4 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 34.5 × 45.2 cm (13 5/8 × 17 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
laborprintprints and drawingwoodcutpaper (fiber product)work
About
A sense of nostalgia for a simpler time can be found in The Print Shop. Here, Baumann portrayed Alonzo Allison, editor and publisher of the Brown County Democrat, and his sons setting type and using an old-fashioned Franklin press. This work, along with 12 others from In the Hills o’ Brown portfolio, was printed on the letterpress depicted. The portfolio was shown in group exhibitions in 1911 and was generously reviewed by critics in Indianapolis and Chicago.
