“There is no readymade formula telling you how to do it [printmaking] as a substitute for skill or craftsmanship.”
—Gustave Baumann
While Baumann was one Provincetown artist who did not adopt the white-line woodcut technique, opting for a more traditional woodcut methodology, the style of Tom A Hunting pays homage to Nordfeldt’s method in image: the pictorial elements – the Provincetown staples of a clapboard house, picket fence, and lush foliage – outlined in negative space. Baumann's prints further differed from the Provincetown style and most other American color woodcuts of the period in that they did not evolve from the Japanese method of hand-rubbed watercolor prints, but rather from the European tradition of multiple-block, color wood engravings printed on a press. It was also around this time in Provincetown that Baumann developed his personal chopmark: an open palm within a heart, here stamped in the same orange hue as he colored the houses' chimneys.