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- Sale 6511
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Sale 6511
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Estimate$1,500 – $2,500
Provenance:
R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago
Acquired from the above
Private Collection, Illinois
Literature:
The Masses, February 5, 1914, p. 18, illus.
Lot Note:
The present drawing of three hungry men inspecting a worm-ridden ashcan was reproduced in the February 5, 1914 issue of The Masses, a populist New York socialist magazine. Around 1912-1914, Bellows, along with Stuart Davis and John Sloan, began to contribute to the magazine, emphasizing class distinctions in their work, satirizing the wealthy and portraying the poor as truly disadvantaged. To other Masses artists, such as cartoonist Art Young, this posture was politically irresponsible. Young indirectly referred to the present drawing when he declared that “they {these artists} want to run pictures of ash cans and girls hitching up their skirts on Horatio Street." Thus, the term was unwittingly coined in a negative context.
Framed: 17 x 15 1/4 in.
Mat: 13 3/4 x 12 1/8 in.
Surface dirt; uneven toning to sheet; scattered pinpoint brown stains; small surface accretion at extreme lower left corner; faint handling crease at lower right corner; hinged to sheet verso at upper corners with associated impressions and slight skinning to extreme edge recto. Please request additional images.
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