The Private Presses of New Mexico

The Press of Gustave Baumann

Chips an Shavings

Gustave Baumann woodblock illustrations from Chips an’ Shavings. The artist draws upon his Midwest experience and uses the voices of a Hoosier carpenter and his barber friend to reveal the secrets of the color woodcut in this book he wrote and produced in 1929. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts Library, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.

Frijoles Canyon Pictographs Chips an Shavings Pirates or the Cruise of the Black Revenge
July Midget Reliance Press
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The Press of Gustave Baumann Clarks Studio
Ranchos Press Rydal Press
Laughing Horse Press Seton Village Press

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