Nashville, Indiana
Artist/Culture
Gustave Baumann
(American, 1881–1971)
Date1913
Mediumgouache over graphite on brown wove paper
Dimensionssheet: 28.1 x 25.4 cm (11 1/16 x 10 in.)
ClassificationsDrawings
Credit LineGift of Ann Baumann
Object number2006.286
Label TextThough just fifty miles from Indianapolis, Brown County Indiana was still remote when Baumann arrived there in 1910. Just five years before, the railroad came to the edge of Brown County but did not venture into its forested hills. The biggest town and county seat, Nashville nestled in an area known as "the Peaceful Valley." In 1910 the town still had no electricity. Scattered in the surrounding hills there was a tough, self-reliant population of woodsmen, hunters, and hard-scrabble farming families, living in log cabins like their pioneer forebears.ProvenanceThe artist; Ann Baumann, Santa Rosa, CAOn View
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Gustave Baumann
