Prints

The Sawdust Trail

Type: Prints(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1917
Accession number: 2014.30.23
Maker: George Wesley Bellows(Opens in new tab) (American, 1882–1925)
Dimensions: image: 25 1/4 x 19 15/16 in. (64.1 x 50.6 cm.) frame: 35 3/4 x 30 in. (90.8 x 76.2 cm.)
Medium: lithograph
Description: Large crowd of people; several fainting women
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of Hannah S. Kully
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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In 1915, Metropolitan Magazine sent Bellows and journalist John Reed to Philadelphia to cover the revival meeting of Billy Sunday, the most popular Christian evangelist of the early twentieth century. The large audience gave Bellows the opportunity to observe the behavior of crowds and to depict people in extreme emotional states. The Sawdust Trail concentrates on the worshippers. A man on the left reaches up to shake Billy Sunday's hand.

The Sawdust Trail

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