Frijoles Canyon
Artist/Culture
Gustave Baumann
(American, 1881–1971)
Date1920
Mediumgouache on brown wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 33.3 x 30 cm (13 1/8 x 11 13/16 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Ann Baumann
Object number2006.273
Label TextFrom the twelfth to fifteenth centuries an ancestral pueblo community called Tyuonyi flourished in Frijoles Canyon, northwest of Santa Fe. About a hundred people lived in its large circular community house. This pueblo was three stories tall, with rooms leading into cliff dwellings carved into volcanic rock. The layout of the pueblo around a central plaza were apparent in the ruins discovered by Adolph Bandelier in 1880. In Baumann's early years in New Mexico, Frijoles Canyon was a favorite haunt. Many of his woodcuts depict its ruins and wall paintings.ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Baumann, Santa Rosa, CAOn View
Not on view
