Untiled (Air Raid on Spanish Village)
1937
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lithograph
Dimensions
image: 365 x 275 mm sheet: 462 x 317 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.3131
Art Historical Context
Created in 1937, *Untitled (Air Raid on Spanish Village)* is a powerful lithograph by American artist Michael Lenson, capturing the horrors of aerial bombardment during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939). This conflict pitted fascist forces led by General Francisco Franco against Republican defenders, with devastating bombings of civilian areas—like the infamous April 1937 attack on Guernica—drawing international outrage. Lenson's print, measuring 365 x 275 mm on a 462 x 317 mm sheet, reflects the era's social realist impulse to document and protest such atrocities through accessible art. As a...