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Color woodcut, 1926/printed 1956; pencil signed in lower right; from an unnumbered edition of 50 (aside from the 1926 edition of 100 and the 1937 edition of 125; see notes below); printed by the artist on cream Zanders laid paper with the Hand-in-Heart watermark. Chamberlain 109; Baumann inventory no. 79.
Three Pines is Baumann’s only color woodcut of Colorado. It is a result of a trip to Hewes-Kirkwood Inn, located at the foot of Longs Peak near Estes Park in Rocky Mountain National Park. It was first printed in 1926 and, in 1956, in preparation for his exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Baumann printed about fifty impressions. These impressions were pencil signed and titled but were never formally editioned.
Three Pines was first printed in an edition of 100 in 1926. In 1937, Baumann completed a second edition of 125, and in 1956, he printed fifty or fewer impressions in anticipation of sales due to his alcove exhibition at the Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery (now the New Mexico Museum of Art). These impressions often bear the year of printing but were not formally editioned. For an explanation of the various printing campaigns and the number of colors and blocks used, we refer you to pages 316-318 of In A Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, A Catalogue Raisonné.
