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Series Title: In the Hills O' Brown

The Blacksmith Shop

1910, printed 1914

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
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Culture
America
Medium
color woodcut
Support
Japanese paper
Measurements
Image: 23 x 33.6 cm (9 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.); Sheet: 26.4 x 35.3 cm (10 3/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.424.1
Catalogue raisonné
Chamberlain 23
Edition
100
Copyright
© Ann Baumann Trust
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

The economy of Brown County was based on farming, crafts, and tourism. Baumann’s portrait of the community that befriended him, The Hills O’ Brown, includes the blacksmith who shoed horses and repaired wagon wheels. “While the whole setup had a kind of Middle Age gloom about it, the large bellows blew cheer into it,” the artist wrote. “If you can see a ramshackle structure as something picturesque, this was it.”
A horizontally oriented color woodcut depicts four men with light skin tones working in a blacksmith shop. On our left, a man holds metal with tongs on an anvil. In the center, two men labor over a glowing orange forge, one raising a hammer. On our right, another man pulls a wooden lever. Chairs hang from ceiling beams, a window looks outdoors, and handwritten text runs along the bottom margin of the dark, textured interior.

The Blacksmith Shop

1910, printed 1914

Gustave Baumann

(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
America

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