An American Pulse:
The War Series

The Return of the Useless (from the War series), 1918
Edition of at least 72
Mason 67; Bellows 149
Museum purchase, 1998:5
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"Belgian slaves being shipped back and dumped, broken in health and useless for further exploitation by their German masters. A man has fallen exhausted and is being kicked by a guard."
-George Bellows

This lithograph was published in Everybody's Magazine in December 1918, in the eleventh installment of an article by Brand Whitlock entitled "Belgium: The Crowning Crime." Whitlock, the American ambassador to Belgium, wrote of the atrocities that had occurred during the war. This print was published one month after the armistice was signed.

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