Electrocution

George Bellows1917

Details

Title: Electrocution
Creator: George Wesley Bellows
Date Created: 1917
Subject Keywords: death, political commentary, politics
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil, lower right: “Geo. Bellows”; inscribed in pencil, lower center: “Execution”; inscribed in pencil in other hand, lower left: “No 14”
Print State: First of two states
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Friends of the Davison Art Center funds, 1987
Materials & Techniques: Lithograph on thin wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: First state, unknown; second state, 51; the second-state edition was printed from the center part of the stone used for state one, the reduction made by stopping out the side portions of the image on the stone.
Dimensions: 1925
Bibliography: Lauris Mason 42; Emma S. Bellows 55
Associated People: Created by George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882-1925)
Accession Number: 1987.9.2

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