Mission San Xavier del Bac

c. 1923

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium: tempera over graphite on brown paper
Dimensions: Image: 19.1 x 20.1 cm (7 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.); with borders: 23.6 x 23 cm (9 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 28.1 x 29.2 cm (11 1/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
Collection no.: 2005.458
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Mission San Xavier del Bac — Gustave Baumann. c. 1923.

Medium: tempera over graphite on brown paper. Dimensions: Image: 19.1 x 20.1 cm (7 1/2 x 7 15/16 in.); with borders: 23.6 x 23 cm (9 5/16 x 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 28.1 x 29.2 cm (11 1/16 x 11 1/2 in.).

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

San Xavier del Bac, in Tucson, Arizona, was founded as a Spanish Roman Catholic mission in 1692. The current church was constructed of stone and bricks between 1783 and 1797 in a Baroque architectural style. Baumann never made a print of the subject, only this tempera.

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.

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