The Charge, 1918

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Medium

lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 25.08 × 40.96 cm (9 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

sheet: 28.26 × 43.34 cm (11 1/8 × 17 1/16 in.)
support: 37.15 × 55.25 cm (14 5/8 × 21 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Mason 1992, no. 63

Accession Number

2015.19.2929

Artists / Makers

George Bellows (artist) American, 1882 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: No 1; lower center in graphite: The Charge; lower right in graphite: Geo Bellows; lower left support in black ballpoint pen by unknown hand: 51; upper right support in blue ballpoint pen by unknown hand: SY 1070 mat 10/3 1/2 cutaway / op

Provenance

Edward J. Nygren, Great Falls, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Nygren, Edward

Bibliography

1927: Bellows, Emma S. George W. Bellows: His Lithographs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, no. 30.

1977: Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1977, p. 108, no. 63.

1992: Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992, p. 123, no. 63.