
Gott Strafe England (second state)
Lithograph
1918
Signed by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (JBB)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "No. 17"
Edition: at least 60
From the War Series
The phrase "Gott Strafe England" (May God punish England) was a slogan used by the German army during WWI.
Provenance Bellows Family Trust
Bibliography
Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 55 (only state).
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 171.
Lauris Mason assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne, Revised edition (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992), 55, second state.
Sheet: 21 1/4 x 25 1/8"
Image: 21 1/4 x 25 1/8"
BFT0924
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