The lithographs in the online exhibition AN AMERICAN PULSE are organized here according to
theme.
Many of the lithographs carry notations in their titles indicating they
are "first state," "second state," or "third state." The first, or earliest, images
pulled from a lithographic stone are designated the first state of a lithograph. Each
time the stone is altered, the images pulled are referred to as succeeding states
(second, third, fourth, etc.). Quotations associated with specific lithographs are
included in the image text. In general these comments come from one of three sources:
George Bellows, Emma Story Bellows (his wife), or Charles Morgan, the leading
biographer of Bellows.
You can purchase the catalogue for this online exhibition,
An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
This exhibition catalogue is an eighty-six page softcover with gate folds. Sixty Bellows lithographs
from SDMA's collection are reproduced in this beautiful catalogue. Essays by D.
Scott Arkinson, SDMA's curator of American art, and Charlene S. Engel, art historian, are included.
