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Electrocution

George Bellows1917

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States

  • 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
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University

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