Fifth Avenue (Flags)
Gustave Baumann
1917
- Medium
- Color woodcut on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 33.7 × 28.2 cm (13 5/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 42.4 × 34.7 cm (16 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- woodcut
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printingprintprints and drawingwoodcut (process)woodcutpaper (fiber product)
About
During World War I, Fifth Avenue, decorated with flags as seen here, came to represent America’s home front effort, demonstrating national pride. Baumann spent the winter of 1917–18 in New York City, where he produced three color woodcuts, before moving to Santa Fe the following summer.
