Electrocution, Third State
Lithograph
1917
Signed in pencil by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (J.B.B.)
Annotated "No. 7" in pencil lower left
Edition: 51 (edition includes all five states)
Very rare
In this state, Bellows reduced the size of the image in two variant formats
Exhibition Boston, MA, Childs Gallery, September 15 - November 8, 2008. "George Bellows: Master Draftsman and Lithographer."
Bibliography
Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 42.
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 156.
A very rich impression. Slight cockling to the sheet.
Sheet: 10 7/8 x 15 5/8"
Image: 8 1/8 x 7 1/2"
BFT0551
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