Prayer meeting, no. 1
Item Information
- Title:
- Prayer meeting, no. 1
- Description:
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While summering in Maine the artist had witnessed a religious service in a small rural meeting house. The stalwart preacher, the prim pianist, and the provincial congregants listen while a true believer gives testimony. Consequently, a satire was recorded in the artist's memory, sketched, and eventually worked onto two lithographic stones. (Mason)
- Artist:
- Bellows, George, 1882-1925
- Name on Item:
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Geo Bellows ESB
- Date:
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[1914]
- Format:
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Drawings/Illustrations
- Genre:
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Ink drawings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Prayer
Religious services
- Extent:
- 1 drawing : pen and ink on light weight cream wove paper ; sheet 14 x 17 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279v352
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from material accompanying item.
Study for the lithograph titled, "Prayer meeting, first stone" (Mason: M. 13; Bellows: B. 38).
Additional information accompanying item: Signed by Mrs. Bellows. Signed in ink in lower left corner "Geo. Bellows E.S.B."
Study for drawing "Deponent Testifies That He Is No Longer a Sinner," published in Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1914. The published drawing was the source for the lithograph, "Prayer Meeting, First Stone."
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Emma S. Bellows; June 1943
- Notes (date):
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Date supplied by cataloger.
This date is inferred.
- Notes (citation):
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Mason, Lauris. "The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné." KTO Press, 1977, Millwood, N.Y.
Bellows, Emma. "George W. Bellows : his lithographs." A. A. Knopf, 1927, New York.
- Accession #:
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1943.2.7
- Identifier:
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06_05_000005
- Barcode:
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36666003814890
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