Gustave Baumann's Woodcuts

Gustave Baumann (1881-1971) was born in Germany but moved to Chicago as a child.  He studied at engraving and illustration while he worked and took classes  at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work was included in the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition winning the Gold Medal for Color Woodcut.  In 1918 he visited Taos, New Mexico and he returned and lived in Santa Fe until his death in 1971.

Eliza Greatorex

Although she was born in Ireland in 1820 and died in France in 1897, the greatest part of Eliza Greatorex's life was spent in America.  She came to New York City in 1840 and at the age of 38 as a widow, she began to support herself and her family as a painter, etcher, illustrator and academic.  Her works were exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon from 1881 to 1894, as well as in Berlin and London. She was the first associate who was a woman in the National Academy of Design and her etchings of landmarks of New York City, the Colorado Rockies and Germany were published and widely known.

Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Nimmo Moran (Scotland 1842 to 1889 New York) was considered the "most prominent of the women etchers in the late 19th century." She produced a large number of prints that were celebrated for their boldness and originality.  She was elected to the Society of Painter-Etchers of New York; she became the only woman of the 65 original Fellows of London's Royal Society of Painter-Etchers; her prints won awards and were collected by such prominent individuals as the English critic John Ruskin.  She and her husband, the artist Thomas Moran, built a house and studio in Easthampton, Long Island where she died of typhoid fever.

Etchings 2008 Cottonwood, River, Field, Garden, Slough 15" x 15"

Cottonwood, River, Field, Garden, Slough

Line etchings, 15" x 15" 2008

Gene Kloss and Stow Wengenroth

Gene Kloss was a serious printmaker who created a body of  627 etchings, many of them evocative drypoints.  She was born Alice Geneva Glasier in 1924 and attended the University of California-Berkeley. She worked for many years in Taos, New Mexico where she died at age 92.  This print is a drypoint called Navajo Canyon Cliffs, 1974. 

Stow Wengenroth was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1906 and died in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1978. He was considered to be one of the best lithographers of the twentieth century.  In his lithographs he focused on shadow and light to create forms of the littoral and interior. This print is Woodland Scene, lithograph 1960