Mother and children ("June again")

Bellows, George, 1882-1925 · 1916

The artist's wife and two children at Ogunquit, Maine. (Bellows) / Ogunquit represented a compromise in the Bellows family. George wanted Monhegan again, and Emma, who dreaded the water especially with German submarines drowning American citizens without warning, wanted none of it. If George must have Maine, let him stay ashore. Emma, with two small children of her own as hostages, won the day for Ogunquit, where they spent an uncomfortable summer. They rented a cottage on the major road of the little Maine fishing village... -CHM, p. 191 Bellows' daughters Anne and Jean were five and one when the Bellows family summered at Ogunquit, Maine and the idea for this print originated. When the lithograph was reproduced in "The Masses," June 1917, it was called "June Again." (Mason)