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Benediction in Georgia

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Type
Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date
1916
Accession number
2014.30.16
Maker
George Wesley Bellows(Opens in new tab) (American, 1882–1925)
Dimensions
image: 15 3/4 x 19 7/8 in. (40 x 50.5 cm.) sheet: 20 3/4 x 26 1/2 in. (52.7 x 67.3 cm.)
Medium
lithograph
Description
Man in a suit stands with his arms outstretched in front of a large group of prisoners chained at the ankles
Credit
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Hannah S. Kully
Department
American Art
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Bellows grew up in a highly religious home and produced a series of prints on the impact of religion that he exhibited in 1918 as "Studies in Belief." He intended the scene of a white minister towering over black convicts to be a study in hypocrisy, making it one of his most political prints. The image also appeared as an illustration in the Socialist magazine The Masses, which was critical of racial discrimination and the role of evangelical religion in the United States.

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