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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25778
People
George Wesley Bellows, American (Columbus, OH 1882 - 1925 New York, NY)
Title
Murder of Edith Cavell
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: War Series
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1918
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/100569

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
image: 48.3 x 62.7 cm (19 x 24 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Geo Bellows / J. B. B.
  • inscription: lower margin below image, to left and right, graphite, hand written, signed: No 35 Geo Bellows / J. B. B. [impression number (in artist's hand?), surrogate signature by artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Possibly estate of George Wesley Bellows. [James Bergquist, Newton Centre, Massachusetts], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, December 10, 2002.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
vii/vii
Standard Reference Number
M. 53

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Diane and Michael Maher
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
M25778
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Carol Troyen, "Collateral Damage: George Bellows and the Great War", The World of William Glackens: The C. Richard Hilker Art Lectures (New York, NY), pp. 159-191, p. 164, 174, repr. p. 165 as fig. 115

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