Book Signing with Tom Leech and Carmella Padilla

In Printing the Spirit, co-authors Thomas Leech and Carmella Padilla draw from Baumann’s original materials, now part of the Gustave Baumann Archive at the New Mexico History Museum, to honor Baumann’s work. For the first time, Printing the Spirit brings together a selection of Baumann’s faithful pencil renderings of thirty-four bultos and retablos and the proofs he made for the original book. Also included are color reproductions of some of the actual santos, now in museum collections, upon which he modeled his works; images of his original carved woodblocks; essays by Baumann and Austin; poetry by Church; and historic photographs.

Printing the Spirit is published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Immediately after this event (from 5:15-6:15pm), both authors will be doing a book signing in the museum lobby.