Collection Online as of December 4, 2023
Desert Rock Garden
Gustave Baumann
(American, born Germany, 1881–1971)
Color woodcut with aluminum leaf
Support: Zerkaff butten paper
Image: 25.2 x 38.3 cm (9 15/16 x 15 1/16 in.); Sheet: 36.6 x 45.9 cm (14 7/16 x 18 1/16 in.)
Gift of Ann Baumann 2005.414
© Ann Baumann Trust
Catalogue raisonné: Chamberlain 185
Location
not on view
Description
Shifting, glistening gypsum dunes, some as much as 40 feet high, are located in the Tularosa Basin, part of the White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Baumann mischievously placed Camel Rock, a legendary formation located between Taos and Santa Fe, among the unusual shapes he found in the Tularosa Basin.