Art, literature & historyOctober Night
1919
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- color woodcut
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 x 28.7 cm (9 1/2 x 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 x 41.7 cm (13 1/2 x 16 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2005.428
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
October Night — Gustave Baumann. 1919.
Medium: color woodcut. Dimensions: Image: 24.2 x 28.7 cm (9 1/2 x 11 5/16 in.); Sheet: 34.3 x 41.7 cm (13 1/2 x 16 7/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
In 1919, living in Santa Fe, Baumann returned briefly to the temperas he had painted in Brown County, Indiana, to create October Night and Salt Creek (2005.436). The artist’s musings describe October Night, his only nocturnal view: “Just before leaving last fall an unusually fine moonlight night tempted me for a long tramp in search of new material—the path lay over the highest hills and down through little hollows with lonely cabins and lacey sycamores all bathed in shimmery light.”
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.