"At Dinant there were five to six hundred civilians massacred singly and in groups.
This lithograph unaltered is used as a motive for painting 'Massacre at Dinant'."
-George Bellows
This powerful lithograph appeared in the November 1918 issue of Vanity Fair,
illustrating an article entitled "The Hun". In a strongly horizontal composition Bellows
brings the viewer close to the little mass of men, women, children, and nuns, which
represents the citizens of Dinant massacred by the Germans. The Germans are seen only
as bodiless arms waving swords at the far left of the composition.
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
