In 1922, George Bellows was commissioned by Century Magazine to produce 16 drawings
illustrating The Wind Bloweth, a novel by popular Irish author Donn Byrne. The novel
tells the story of a young boy's search for adventure and beauty. This lithograph
illustrates an Irish fair as described by Byrne in the following passage:
Eleven on a hot July morning, and the little town was crowded, like some old-time
immigrant ship. Women in plaid shawls and grilled caps men in somber black as befitted a
monthly occasion. Squawking of ducks and hens, trudging of donkeys, creaking of
carts... colts frisking. Girls with baskets of eggs and butter; great carts of hay and
straw....
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
