Art, literature & historyBright Angel Trail
1922
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Color woodcut on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.3 × 28.7 cm (9 5/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 42.5 cm (13 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1923.473
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Bright Angel Trail — Gustave Baumann. 1922.
Medium: Color woodcut on cream laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 24.3 × 28.7 cm (9 5/8 × 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.2 × 42.5 cm (13 1/2 × 16 3/4 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
This print presents artistic paeans to the American Southwest and reflects the body of work Baumann produced during his trip to the Grand Canyon in 1921. Bright Angel Trail captures a view from the Bright Angel hiking trail, Baumann depicted the canyon’s craggy peaks and steep walls with vivid tones of russet, purple, and green.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.