Sunday 1897 (Sunday Going to Church)
(1921) Lithograph Print
Sheet: 14-1/4 x 17" (36.1 x 43.2 cm.)
Image: 12-1/8 x 14-7/8" (30.5 x 37.5 cm.)
$ 7,500.00
Edition: 54
An uncomfortable looking George Bellows is crammed into the carriage next to his father while his mother and two friends sit in the back. Bellows identifies the passersby as the Reverend Purley A. Baker, first president of the Anti-saloon League, and his wife.
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Initialed in the stone lower right corner
Provenance: H. V. Allison & Company, New York, NY (label)
Bibliography: Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 73
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), 64, reproduced p. 78