Snapshot In Time: The people who worked this farm in 1931 may have seen Jimmy Doolittle fly overhead as he set a coast to coast flight record of 11 hours and 16 minutes. In 1931 mid-America, this scene was a long way from the Empire State Building, the world's tallest building which had just been constructed in a little over a year.

Art Smart Fact: Around a year after HONDO was completed, the Baumanns (Gustave, Jane and daughter Ann) embarked on a depression-era adventure when they built and operated their own marionette theater to earn additional money during these hard times.

About The Art: 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 has ever worked in this difficult medium. Today, original woodcuts by Gustave Baumann cost thousands of dollars if and when you can find them.

But you don't have to win the lottery to own his work. This is a fine reproduction of HONDO. 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 authenticl the signature and hand-in-the-heart chop mark look and how good the colors are.....even the paper has texture. Several of the out-of-print reproductions have gone on to become valuable themselves.