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
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
1881–1924
born Columbus, OH 1882; died New York, NY 1925
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