The White Hope, 1921

Not on View

Medium

lithograph in black

Dimensions

image: 36.83 × 47.63 cm (14 1/2 × 18 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Mason 1992, no. 96

Accession Number

1956.6.14

Artists / Makers

George Bellows (artist) American, 1882 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: Bolton Brown - imp; lower center in graphite: The White Hope; lower right in graphite: Geo Bellows; lower left in plate: Geo Bellows

Provenance

(H. V. Allison & Co., Larchmont, NY); purchased by NGA, 1956.

Associated Names

H. V. Allison & Co.

Exhibition History

1963: American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 27.

2012: George Bellows, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012 - 2013, no. 124.

Bibliography

1927: Bellows, Emma S. George W. Bellows: His Lithographs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, no. 44.

1977: Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1977, no. 96.

1982: Carmean, E.A., Jr., et al. Bellows: The Boxing Pictures. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982: 41.

1992: Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992, p. 161, no. 96.

2012: Brock, Charles, et al. George Bellows. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012-2013. Washington and New York, 2012: no. 124.