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George Bellows

The Shower-Bath, 1917

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

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.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Max N. Berry

Catalogue Raisonné

Mason 1992, no. 45, i/iii

Accession Number

2017.102.1

Artists / Makers

George Bellows (artist) American, 1882 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Burns Fine Prints, Catherine E.

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.

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