George Wesley Bellows
Splinter Beach
1915
Physical Qualities
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 417 x 536 mm. (16 7/16 x 21 1/8 in.)
Image: 381 x 502 mm. (15 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Peyton Eggleston, Baltimore
Object Number
1999.764
Scene of bathers in various stages of undress at beach in New York. Two studies for this print, both in pencil and wash, are in the Wiggin Collection, Boston Public Library. A study appeared in THE MASSES July 1913.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by partial and promised gift, 1999; gift completed, 2013; Dr. Peyton Eggleston, Baltimore, by purchase, 1998; Aaron Galleries, Chicago
Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, April, 1916.
Myers, Janes and Linda Ayres, The Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, 'George Bellows: The Artist and his Lithographs, 1916-1924,' Sept. 10-Nov. 13, 1988, no. 14, ill. fig. 29; circulated through January 1990.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Myers, Janes and Linda Ayres, The Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, 'George Bellows: The Artist and his Lithographs, 1916-1924,' Sept. 10-Nov. 13, 1988, no. 14, ill. fig. 29; circulated through January 1990.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
ArtNet Online Auction Records: Christie's New York, 5/13/97, #256.
Bellows, Emma S., George W. Bellows: His Lithographs, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, no. 63.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "No 53."; lower center in graphite: "Splinter Beach"; lower right in graphite: "Geo Bellows"
Artist
George Wesley Bellows
born Columbus, OH 1882; died New York, NY 1925
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