Sunday 1897 (Sunday Going to Church)

Lithograph

1921

Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Initialed in the stone lower right corner

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.

Provenance H. V. Allison & Company, New York, NY (label)

Bibliography Lauris Mason; assisted by Joan Ludman, The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne (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.

Sheet: 14 1/4 x 17"
Image: 12 1/8 x 14 7/8"

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