Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-30

Two rather remarkable art exhibits
were placed for public view in the
art galleries of the new museum this
week, replacing in part the exhibit
of old Chinese paintings. The first is
that of color wood-block prints by
Gustave Baumann, being the first
turned out from his studio on Conon
road. Before coming to Santa Fe. Mr..
Baumann had gained nationwide
| fame and incidentally, gold medals at
the San Francisco exposition, for his
work which depicted the quaint scenes
of Brown county, Ind, as well as
pictures of New York city, Wyoming,
N. Y, and other places in the east
| The exhibit which opened this week
at the museum, however. and which
supplemented by an>> exhibit at the
Santa Fe Print shop. shows for the
| first time his New Mexico work which
began last year when he came to Taos
from Chicago and in the fall settled at
Santa Fe, sending east for his press
es and equipment and fitting up a
studio. He has at present a large
exhibit in the art museum of Cincin-
natl, as well as exhibits at the Chicago
art institute and the annual exhibit
in New York City, There are eight
pictures in the exhibit at the museum.
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Guadalupe" lovely and reverent
representation of the statue as car
ried in professions at Santa Fe. By
it's side hangs picture of the
Church at Ranches de Taos" en-
Iphasizing it's impressive maSsiveness
and splendid proportions, a veritable
Crock of Ages" "Tent Rock Trail and
lTyu'onyi" takes the beholder into the
wonderland of the Bandelier national
monument, thirty miles west of Santa
Fe, whose coloring and masses have
! been the despair of photographers
and artists. Mr.. Baumann through
his medium gives an aspect OF the
Rito de los Frijoles that retains both
the grandeur and the mystery of the
Landscape. But more than that, he
makes it live as it was Thousand
years ago, restores the great terraced
community house aud peoples the
caves with the ancients, the ancestors
Iof the Pueblo Indians. This is eSpec-
tally the case in the largest picture
THE Day of the Deer Dance" which
brings out the full majesty of the
Rito Canon suffused in the rosy ligh,
of the morning sun. The terraced
house and the kivas are alive with
ICliff DWellers in the ceremonial cos
tune of the deer dance, but sky
Icliffs, caves, communal house, sane
Ituaries, people, forming one harmon
Iious whole, a color symphony. The
craftsmanship, too. is fine and the
composition admirable. 1.-THE Deer
Hunt is based on the greatest of tbs
photographs thus far discovered in thf
Rito de los Fripoles caves. AS will
he remembered these wonderful pic
Itograph frescoes were discovered by
x. M. Chapman and Carlos Vierra OF
the Springer expedition in 1915, and
squeegee prints were made OF two
hundred of them, but this is the frs
time that an artist has made one OF
them theme for an artistic produc'
Ition. Mr.. Baumann's treatment pre-
serves the spirit and feeling of the
Ioriginal, possibly frightening its
dramatic quality. 1t is big piece OF
work that will make fasteners mar
vel and will make artists respect the
Iprimitives who expressed themselves
on the walls of the Rito caves. "The
i Ceremonial Cave" is another one OF
the series of Cliff Dwelling pictures
and in it too the artist adds the liv-
ling note. THE Iona, Taos" is a
lcharming bit of landscape in subdued