Solitude
George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882 - 1925
1917
Lithograph on thin tissue
edition of 60
Image: 17 1/4 × 15 9/16 in. (43.8 × 39.5 cm)
Sheet (Irreg.): 24 5/16 × 21 1/2 in. (61.7 × 54.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.987.23
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Geo Bellows; numbered, in graphite, lower left margin: No 10; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: Solitude; numbered along lower margin [not in artist's hand]: No. 61 C4445 B.90
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, Drawing III, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 21, 1992.
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: The Figurative Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Color Intaglio Prints and Lithographs, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12-March 10, 1991.
Publication History
Barbara MacAdam, Picturing New York: Images of the City,1890-1955, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no.9.
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 162, no. 132.
Provenance
G. W. Einstein Company, Inc., New York; sold to present collection, 1987.
Catalogue Raisonne
Mason 37; ESB 61
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