File:George Bellows - The Barricade (1918).jpg
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editGeorge Bellows: The Barricade
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q167132 |
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Object type |
painting ![]() |
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Genre |
military art ![]() |
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Description |
English: The painting inspired by an incident in August 1914 where German soldiers used Belgian townspeople as human shields. |
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Date |
October 1918 date QS:P571,+1918-10-00T00:00:00Z/10 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 124.7 cm (49.1 in); width: 211.4 cm (83.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,124.78U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,211.46U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q865736 |
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Accession number |
1990.124 |
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Place of creation |
United States of America ![]() |
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Credit line | Museum purchase with funds provided by the Harold and Regina Simon Fund, the Friends of American Art, Margaret Gresham Livingston, and Crawford L. Taylor, Jr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Notes | George Bellows’ Catalogue, Record Book B, pp143 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | The Birmingham Museum of Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Google Art Project works from the Birmingham Museum of Art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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