Lithograph

1918

Signed by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (JBB)

Annotated in pencil lower left: "No. 4" or "No. 9" (the figure has been partially erased) with an "X" over it, suggesting that this may be a first state working proof.

Edition: 103

From the War Series

British Red Cross nurse Edith Cavell was found guilty of helping wounded Allied soldiers to escape and was executed by firing squad October 12, 1915, despite international protest.

The final image was reproduced in "Everybody's Magazine," October, 1918, and in "Vanity Fair" magazine, November, 1918.

Provenance Bellows Family Trust

Bibliography Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 53.

Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 178.

Sheet: 25 x 31 7/8"
Image: 18 3/4 x 24 3/4"

BFT0905

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