Snapshot In Time: In 1926, the Jazz Age is in full swing. Duke Ellington is playing high notes at the Cotton Club while Ernest Hemingway is publishing The Sun Also Rises. There are an estimated 32,000 speakeasies in New York City (double the number before Prohibition) and Rin Tin Tin is the biggest box office star in Hollywood. Many people travel west to see the sights, especially where cowboys and indians live.

Art Smart Fact: Many artists have never created any picture with rain since it is a very difficult subject to pull off. Baumann used the principle of repetition to create the impression of rain in this woodcut. Through his skills as a craftsman, he repeated the short slim diagonal lines over and over, in just the right pattern, so that the viewer would see rain in the mountains.

About The Art: RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS typifies Baumann's mastery of the woodcut medium. Independent and influential, Gustave Baumann stands at the center of American color relief printmaking in the 20th century. He is considered by many to be the "best of the best" of any color woodcut artist who ever worked in this difficult medium. Today, original woodcuts by Gustave Baumann cost thousands of dollars if and when you can find them.

This is a fine reproduction of RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS. Indeed, it is one of the best reproductions I have seen in over a decade of selling both original and replicated Baumann woodcuts. You will be very surprised how authentic the signature and hand-in-the-heart chop mark look and how good the colors are.....even the paper has texture. RAIN IN THE MOUNTAINS is available unframed only.