Jun 30, 2022 - Sale 2611

Sale 2611 - Lot 166

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GEORGE BELLOWS
Morning, Nude Sketch.

Lithograph on thin cream wove paper, 1921. 243x183 mm; 9 1/2x7 1/4 inches, full margins. Edition of 48. Signed in pencil, lower right, and signed by the printer, Bolton Brown, and inscribed "imp" in pencil, lower left. A very good impression.

Bellows (1882-1925) was part of the second generation of Aschan School artists. Born in Columbus, Ohio he worked as a commercial illustrator as a student at The Ohio State University from 1901-04. After Ohio State, he moved to New York where he studied with Robert Henri and soon became associated with the Aschan artists. He depicted scenes of everyday life in New York that were rooted in realism. He started making lithographs in 1916 and revived interest in the medium as at the time etching was the preferred printmaking method. Lithography gave him a steady stream of income to provide for his family and also grew his popularity as an artist. Mason 75.