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[In the subway] / GB. – Antique Wall Art

[In the subway] / GB., [1921] — antique lithograph
[In the subway] / GB., [1921]. Antique lithograph from the Valentine's Day collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here a man and woman sit close together in a crowded subway car, a quiet moment of affection set amid the rush of city commuting. George Bellows made the lithograph in 1921, and the stone was printed by his frequent collaborator Bolton Brown, whose name appears on the sheet alongside Bellows's pencil signature. Bellows, a leading member of the Ashcan School, turned again and again to New York's crowds, and the subway, which had opened in 1904, offered him a close, unposed view of ordinary urban life. The thin china paper, typical of lithographs of this period, gives the image a soft, delicate tonal range.

Created / published[1921]
Medium1 print on china paper : lithograph ; 21.6 x 18 cm. (image), 24.2 x 24.7 cm. (sheet)
GenreLithographs 1920-1930.
NotesSigned on stone. Signed in pencil: Geo. Bellows. Inscribed: Bolton Brown impr. Copyright by Mrs. Earl M. Booth. Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited in: Life of the people: Realist prints and drawings from the Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Collection, 1912-1948, Library of Congress, 1999. Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1997:015.1429
SubjectsCommuters--1920-1930. Couples--1920-1930. Love--1920-1930.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,802 × 4,696 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-220133

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