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The Mill Pond

A work made of color woodcut on cream wove paper.

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  • A work made of color woodcut on cream wove paper.

Date:

1913

Artist:

Gustave Baumann
American, 1881-1971

About this artwork

The Mill Pond is one of Baumann’s most ambitious prints. After exhibiting a group of five-color woodblock prints— including Harden Hollow, —at the Art Institute in January 1913, he decided to make a series of larger, six-color woodblocks, intending to have them hung in the classrooms of local schools. This work comes from the latter series. The plan of putting the prints in schools did not come to fruition, however, and Baumann took a brief hiatus from printmaking. His interest in the medium was later revived by his success at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gustave Baumann

Title

The Mill Pond

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1913

Medium

Color woodcut on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image/block: 63 × 86.4 cm (24 13/16 × 34 1/16 in.); Sheet: 65.9 × 89.9 cm (26 × 35 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

The William Gold Hibbard Memorial

Reference Number

1923.978

Extended information about this artwork

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