Gustave Baumann, a German born printmaker, lived in chicago and Nashville, Indiana as a young artist, and then spent more than fifty years in Santa Fe, home base for a wide artistic wandering. He pursued a simple life close to nature and found in the natural world and among the indigenous peoples of the Southwest a constant suply of subjects and an endless source of inspiration.

After correcting some registration problems, and a little cleaning up of the image, I manage to print the final version of the image on Echizen Kozo paper. The image titled "Winter Lilies" is of water lilies after loosing their petals, seeds, and haven given themselves over fully to the ravages of a Wisconsin winter. They are in a temporary frozen state, awaiting the thaw of Spring, and perhaps finishing their journey by becoming food or housing for muskrats.