The Shower-Bath

1917

George Bellows

Artist, American, 1882 - 1925

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Max N. Berry

  • Dimensions

    image: 40.01 × 60.33 cm (15 3/4 × 23 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 55.88 × 80.01 cm (22 × 31 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.102.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mason 1992, no. 45, i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Catherine E. Burns Fine Prints, Berkeley, California); NGA purchase 2017

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Bibliography

1977

  • Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. Millwood, NY, 1977, no. 45.

1992

  • Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. San Francisco, 1992: pp. 94-97, no. 45, i/iii.

2010

  • Katz, Jonathan D. and David C. Ward,Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture Exh cat., National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010, pl. 8.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: No. 3; lower center in graphite: Shower Bath; lower right in graphite: Geo. Bellows ESB

Wikidata ID

Q77260750

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