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An American Pulse:
The Artist as Spectator

Reducing Reducing, Large, Second Stone, 1916
Edition of 8
Mason 22; Bellows 151
Bequest of Earle W. Grant, 1972:7
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A study which started out in a humorous vein but developed into a drama of light and dark. The picture is as interesting upside down. Gymnastics before retiring are supposed to reduce the flesh. The husband is contented with his figure. -George Bellows