George Wesley Bellows
The Sawdust Trail
1916
Physical Qualities
Crayon and brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 774 x 554 mm. (30 1/2 x 21 13/16 in.)
Image: 646 x 508 mm. (25 7/16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
Given by the Board of Trustees and Staff in Honor of Anthony W. Deering, Chairman, 1997-2000
Object Number
2000.52
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2000; Kennedy Galleries, New York
Frederick Keppel & Company, New York, "Exhibition of Lithographs by George Bellows," 7 - 23 November 1918.
Myers, Jane and Linda Ayres, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, "George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924," 10 September - 13 November 1988, figs. 42 & 162, cat. no. 20.
BMA, "New on View," 19 June - 6 October 2002.
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Myers, Jane and Linda Ayres, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, "George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924," 10 September - 13 November 1988, figs. 42 & 162, cat. no. 20.
BMA, "New on View," 19 June - 6 October 2002.
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century," February 7-May 8, 2016.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower center in stone: "THE SAWDUST TRAIL"; lower left in graphite: "No 62"; lower right in graphite: "Geo Bellows"; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: "I45605"
Artist
George Wesley Bellows
1881–1924
born Columbus, OH 1882; died New York, NY 1925
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