Portrait of Robert Aitken, First Stone
(1921) Lithograph Print
Sheet: 15 x 12 5/8" (38.10 x 32.07 cm)
Image: 13 5/8 x 11 3/8" (30.61 x 28.89 cm)
$1,200.00
Edition: 32
Robert Ingersoll Aitken (1878-1949) may be best known as the sculptor of the "Equal Justice under the Law" Tympanum and pediment on the US Supreme Court Building.
Bellows also titled this print "Portrait of a Man."
Signed in pencil by the artist and by his printer, Bolton Brown
Horizontal creases in paper across top of sheet and image
Provenance: Bellows Family Trust
Bibliography: Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 126
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 89