Printmaking, said Gustave Baumann, "requires soul, imagination, deftness . . . and unlimited patience." A beautiful and deeply-detailed new book on Baumann reveals the painstaking process behind his sublime and seemingly evanescent views of the New Mexico landscape. In A Modern Rendering: The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumannis a complete record of Baumann's printed works. Author Gala Chamberlain put together this 600-page catalogue raisonné at the request of Ann Baumann, Gustave's daughter, and Gala spoke with KUNM about that 30-year process.
For each of Baumann's woodcuts, the book displays a series of radically different prints. In this longer version of the interview, Gala Chamberlain discusses the reasons -- ink, pigment, paper -- behind those differences.
