This lithograph was described for the American art-loving public in Art News
(February 16, 1924):
...A quietly humorous vision of a thoroughfare in Columbus, Ohio, with detached houses
and the local life visible on verandas and on the sidewalks, a bit of one of the real
backgrounds of the best of American life.
Bellows didn't return to Columbus often after he departed for New York City, but it is
believed that he sketched this scene on a trip and later turned the sketch into this
evocative image of middle-American family life in the first decades of this century.
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
