An American Pulse:
The War Series

• The Cigarette
• Murder of Edith Cavell
• Massacre at Dinant
• The Return of the Useless

George Bellows was a politically aware artist who often used his art to convey personal feelings about current events taking place in society. In 1918, he undertook a series of lithographs that depicted the atrocities of World War I, a conflict he and many like-minded Americans questioned for its violent devastation. Many of these images later appeared in magazines accompanying stories about the war.

Explore other sections:

• The Artist as Spectator
• Nudes
• Studies in Belief
• Boxing
• Portraits
• Urban Life
• Illustration Series
• Reminiscences from Youth

Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.

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