154 GEORGE BELLOWS
Business-Men’s Bath
.
Lithograph on thin, cream wove paper, 1923. 302x432 mm; 11
7
/
8
x17 inches, full margins.
Edition of 43. Signed and titled in pencil, lower margin, and signed by the printer, Bolton
Brown, in pencil, lower left. A superb, warm impression of this scarce lithograph.
Bellows made two other lithographs on similar themes in 1916 and 1917,
Business-Men’s
Class
and
The Shower-Bath
respectively (Mason 20 and 45). All hearken back to scenes
from his stay at theYMCA when he first arrived in NewYork in 1904. Mason 145.
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