id:			164395
accession number:	2005.461
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2005.461
updated:		2022-01-04 17:37:31.945000

Corn Dance, c. 1924. Gustave Baumann (American, born Germany, 1881-1971). Tempera on brown paper; image: 16.5 x 14.3 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.); sheet: 28 x 24.2 cm (11 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.461 © Ann Baumann Trust

title:				Corn Dance
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creation date:			c. 1924
creation date earliest:		1919
creation date latest:		1929
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creditline:			Gift of Ann Baumann
copyright:			© Ann Baumann Trust

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	tempera on brown paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 20th Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Gustave Baumann (American, born Germany, 1881-1971)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 16.5 x 14.3 cm (6 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.); Sheet: 28 x 24.2 cm (11 x 9 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts
	opening date:   2020-12-20T05:00:00
	<i>Gustave Baumann: Colorful Cuts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 20, 2020-June 27, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Ann Baumann, Santa Rosa, CA
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: February 27, 2006
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wall description: 
From 1913 Baumann executed tempera studies in rich, opaque colors, usually on brown paper, in preparation for making prints. In the case of <em>Corn Dance,</em> he made many changes translating this drawing into a woodcut. The print emphasizes fewer, larger dancers whose costumes have been elaborated with patterning. Subsidiary figures were eliminated and the space was compressed, increasing the size of the mountain and reducing the sky, which had occupied half the background in the tempera. The composition was cut into the blocks in the same direction as the drawing and so is reversed when printed.
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