THE LAW IS TOO SLOW, by George Bellows, 1923, American
THE LAW IS TOO SLOW, by George Bellows, 1923, American print, lithograph. Brutally graphic image of a lynching, in this case the burning alive of an African American man by a small mob of white men (BSLOC_2017_7_134)
Picture No
11965145
Media ID
45354924
Size
1463px x 1800px
(699KB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
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15 People Advocacy African American Anti Racist Anti-racist Art History Ashcan School Atrocity Bellows Blacks Civil Rights Cruelty Draftsmanship Figurative Fine Arts Gruesome Illegal Executions Immolation Injustice Lcgr1705 Lcgrfa1705 Lcgrfa2017 Lynching Mobs Oppression Punishments Race Discrimination Realism Realist Representational Stylized Suffering Terrorism Vigilantes Whites
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