Gustave Baumann’s Southwest

It is evident in the fifty woodblock prints collected here that the artist Gustave Baumann found home when he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1918. These super-colorful plates depict the infinite variety that sunlight lends to the Southwestern landscape, along with the churchgoers, wildlife, and Native American neighbors Baumann encountered. An essay from Traugott, curator of twentieth-century art at the New Mexico Museum of Art sheds light on Baumann's life and work. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)