
The Return of the Useless
Lithograph
1918
Signed in pencil by the artist's daughter, Jean Bellows Booth (J.B.B.)
Annotated in pencil lower left: "No. 29"
Edition: at least 72
From the War Series
Very similar to Bellows' illustration for "Belgium: The Crowning Crime" in the December, 1918 issue of "Everybody's Magazine."
Provenance Bellows Family Trust
Bibliography
Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (New York: KTO Press, 1977), 67.
Jane Myers and Linda Ayres, George Bellows: The Artist and His Lithographs 1916-1924 (Ft. Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1988), p. 179.
Very rich impression
Sheet: 25 x 30 7/16"
Image: 19 7/8 x 21 1/2"
BFT1018
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