In Memorium: Sacco and Vanzetti, 'Our Senses Will Applaud the World Again, But Who Can Clap Life into Murdered Men?'

1930

George Biddle

Artist, American, 1885 - 1973

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

  • Dimensions

    image (irregular): 48.42 × 33.02 cm (19 1/16 × 13 in.)
    sheet: 58.26 × 40.64 cm (22 15/16 × 16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.880

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Pennigar 1979, no. 102

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

the artist, Croton-on-Hudson, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1957; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1979

  • The Graphic Work of George Biddle, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979, no. 102

Bibliography

1979

  • Pennigar, Martha. The Graphic Work of George Biddle, with Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1979, pp. 26, 45, no. 102.

Inscriptions

lower right on stone: Biddle / 1930; lower left in graphite: In Memorium: Sacco and Vanzetti, / "Our Senses will applaud the world again; / But who can clap life into murdered men?"; lower right in graphite: George Biddle / 30/50; lower left corner in black ink by unknown hand: No. 68.; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 20 x 24

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Wikidata ID

Q77011797

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