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
Depicts the Billy Sunday revival meeting in Philadelphia, January 1915. Related crayon and ink drawing of 1915 in the Boston Public Library, Print Department.
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
born Columbus, OH 1882; died New York, NY 1925
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