Harden Hollow

Harden Hollow — Gustave Baumann. 1912.

Medium: Color woodcut on cream wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 50.2 × 67.7 cm (19 13/16 × 26 11/16 in.); Sheet: 54.8 × 72 cm (21 5/8 × 28 3/8 in.).

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

One from a series of four large prints, Harden Hollow displays the rolling hills in Brown County, Indiana, where the artist lived from 1910 to 1917. A farmer works diligently in the foreground, with buildings scattered throughout the undulating countryside, which is bathed in light that forces the eye deeper into the composition. Baumann included this work along with seven other color woodblock prints at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, where he was awarded a gold medal.

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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.