In Memorium: Sacco and Vanzetti, 'Our Senses Will Applaud the World Again, But Who Can Clap Life into Murdered Men?', 1930

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 48.42 × 33.02 cm (19 1/16 × 13 in.)

sheet: 58.26 × 40.64 cm (22 15/16 × 16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Catalogue Raisonné

Pennigar 1979, no. 102

Accession Number

2015.19.880

Artists / Makers

George Biddle (artist) American, 1885 - 1973

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Inscription

lower right on stone: Biddle / 1930; lower left in graphite: In Memorium: Sacco and Vanzetti, / "Our Senses will applaud the world again; / But who can clap life into murdered men?"; lower right in graphite: George Biddle / 30/50; lower left corner in black ink by unknown hand: No. 68.; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 20 x 24

Provenance

the artist, Croton-on-Hudson, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Biddle, George
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1979: The Graphic Work of George Biddle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979, no. 102

Bibliography

1979: Pennigar, Martha. The Graphic Work of George Biddle, with Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1979, pp. 26, 45, no. 102.