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GUEST: I was bequeathed it from
my father. My father, uh, bought
this sometime in the,

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I think it was the early to
mid-'70s. I was, like, ten. My
dad bought this from

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Gustave Baumann's widow when she
had come to Colorado State
University. She was selling

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some of his work to raise money,
selling from the estate. And
this one always stopped him.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, yeah, not
hard to see why. (chuckles)

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GUEST: No, it's...

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APPRAISER: These
colors are beautiful.

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GUEST: It's... Yeah, it's
just... It says everything about
the West, uh...

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APPRAISER: Sure.

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GUEST: And so he bought it for,
like, $125, along with another
one, which was, like, aspens in
the

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mountains, or spring in the
aspens. It's also-- he also gave
that one to me, but this is my
favorite.

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APPRAISER: Was that included
in the $125? Or this was $125.

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GUEST: No, they, they were each
$125. They were in my family
home growing up.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, I mean, you
spoke about how this... It, it

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stopped him in his tracks,
and this was his print.

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GUEST: Yeah. APPRAISER: It would
me, too. The colors on this

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are absolutely beautiful. The
artist is Gustave Baumann, you
know that.

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GUEST: Yes.

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APPRAISER: He was actually born
in Germany and came over to the
States

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as a child with his family,
and was living in the Midwest.

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GUEST: Uh-huh. Midwest, okay.

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APPRAISER: He trained in Chicago
and worked in Indiana, and it
wasn't until

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about 1918 that he made his way
down to New Mexico. He was
intending to go to Taos.

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He got to Taos and he
thought it was too busy.

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GUEST (laughs): Okay.

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APPRAISER: So a friend persuaded
him, a friend persuaded him...

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GUEST: Mm-hmm.

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APPRAISER: ...to move on to
Santa Fe. So he gets to Santa Fe
and basically plants himself
there,

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and works in Santa Fe for the
next five-plus decades. And his
imagery have become synonymous

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with the Southwest. He and the
Southwest are so intertwined,
and New Mexico, and this feel...

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GUEST: Yeah. APPRAISER:
...of, of the Southwest.

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GUEST: The feel of...
APPRAISER: It's...

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GUEST: The light, he got
the light just right.

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APPRAISER: The light through
those colors is amazing.

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GUEST: I know.

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APPRAISER: And the appreciation
for his work has just grown over
the past couple of decades,

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and he is super-hot now. Baumann
made the original blocks for
this color woodcut in 1926,

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which is just about eight years
after he arrived in Santa Fe.
And this, you can see, of
course,

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is titled Rain in the Mountains.
This is from the fourth edition.
He printed four editions of this

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subject over a 30-year period,
starting in 1926, and completing
with this fourth and final
edition

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in 1956. The fourth edition is
from an intended edition of 50.
That's why it's numbered 19 of
50.

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And the "R-C" next to that
numbering means the blocks were
recut, reshaped by him...

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GUEST: Oh. APPRAISER: ...to
produce this fourth edition.

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: This is the smallest
edition, but there are all these
intense colors.

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: And what's great
about this, too, is the way that
the rain is coming down.

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GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: In strips from...
That, that's just such a great
talent,

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to be able to pull that off by
cutting a wood block. And then
he mixed all the colors himself,

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signed it in pencil, titled it,
and then this is his hand in
heart...

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GUEST: Oh.

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APPRAISER: ...ink stamp, which
he used on, on his color
woodcuts, just his sort of
monogram symbol.

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GUEST: Uh-huh. APPRAISER: The
appreciation for these...

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: ...like I said, the
past couple of decades, has just
increased exponentially.

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GUEST (laughing): Okay,
now I'm really nervous.

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APPRAISER: Would you have... Any
guess as to what its value is?

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GUEST: Well...
APPRAISER: Like...

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GUEST: I, I, I guessed that,
'cause, um, I know he's popular,
but I thought ten times

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what my dad bought. You know,
so, $1,250 or something, $2,000,
something like that.

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APPRAISER: So you're in the
thousands. This is a great
image.

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: It's, it's... The
more evocative you get with his
imagery of the Southwest,

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the better. It's also one of
the larger color woodcuts.

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: So it's got
everything going for it. The
colors are also perfect,

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like the day they were
printed. It's, that's tough

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to find. I would put a
replacement value or insurance
value on this...

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GUEST: Uh-huh.
APPRAISER: ...at $50,000.

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GUEST (gasping): Oh, my God!
That is so much more than I
thought.

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APPRAISER: I think it was.

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GUEST: Oh, that is so
much more than I thought.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, it's,
it's a phenomenal print.

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GUEST: Okay, I, um... I, okay,
I'm, I'm going to have to do
something about that.

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APPRAISER: (chuckles)
GUEST: Yeah.

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APPRAISER: It's just
a beautiful image.

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GUEST: Oh, thank you. APPRAISER:
Thank you so much for bringing
it in.

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GUEST: I, I, thank you for
letting me know. That's

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really amazing. (laughing):
Really, really amazing.

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APPRAISER: (chuckling):
It's an amazing image.

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GUEST: Yeah, thank you.

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APPRAISER: Yeah. GUEST: It's
always been of value to me,

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and now I'm going to go to an
insurance agent and make sure
that I've got it covered.

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APPRAISER: Yeah. This one, this
one sums up Baumann so well.

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GUEST: Yeah.
(both laughing)

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GUEST: I feel like I'm having
trouble breathing a little bit.
Oh, my God, you're kidding.

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APPRAISER (laughing): No.
GUEST: I mean, really?

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(both laughing)