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GEORGE BELLOWS Splinter Beach.
Lithograph on cream laid Japan paper, 1916. 380x497 mm; 15x19 5/8 inches, full margins. Edition of 70. Signed, titled and inscribed "No. 21" in pencil, lower margin. A very good, richly-inked impression of this scarce lithograph.
Splinter Beach was reproduced in The Masses on July 4, 1913. Bellows (1882-1925) characterized this lithograph, "Bathing urchins under the Brooklyn Bridge. An open Brooklyn Public Dock from which many artists have gathered material for pictures." The artist light-heartedly scratched his name into the top of the charthouse on the passing tugboat. Mason 28.
