A district with N'Komo's mark on it, torture, you know, mutilation—beastliness
Date1912
Artist
George Wesley Bellows
(American painter and lithographer, 1882–1925)
Illustration Citation"The Darkened Path," by Perceval Gibbon, in Harper's Weekly, January 3, 1914
MediumInk and lithographic crayon on paper
Dimensionscomposition: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
sheet: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
sheet: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1991
Object number1991-177
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBellows's illustration for a melodramatic tale of Africa foreshadows the depiction of tragedy and violence in his paintings and prints of the First World War
