Granville Redmond( American, 1871 – 1935) Untitled( California Landscape with Live Oaks and Poppy Fields), ca. 1925 Oil on canvas, 25 x 20 inches, labels verso On loan courtesy of The Northwest Gallery in memory of Lawrence and Rose Gianetto, and Kody Merrill.
Granville Redmond and Charlie Chaplin conversing in sign language.
Another California Impressionist, Granville Redmond, admired for the brilliance of his brushwork and color and sublime sensibilities, is also known for his friendship with Charlie Chaplin. A deaf-mute, Redmond helped Chaplin develop pantomime techniques he would use in his silent pictures. Chaplin admired Redmond’ s paintings, collected them, and also gave the artist roles in several of his films.
Gustave Baumann( American, b. Germany, 1881 – 1971) Rancho de Taos, ca. 1930 Tempera on paper, 9 x 10 ¾ inches Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University; Gift of the Ann Baumann Trust. 2015.25.1
While the Jundt collection contains various types of artworks, it is most known for its extensive collection of prints and other works on paper. One of the exceptional offerings in this exhibition is a colored woodcut by Gustave Baumann: his view of Rancho de Taos. One of the pioneers in the revival of the color woodcut in the early decades of the 20th century, Bauman’ s final print is here shown in the context of the artist’ s creative process. Starting with the original design in tempera, the development of final print is shown in a series of ten progressive woodcut prints, one for each color. Also included are six of the actual blocks used to make the print. Baumann’ s works won a gold medal for color woodcuts at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco.
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