The painting inspired by an incident in august 1914 where german soldiers used belgian townspeople as human shields. Object Type: painting. Genre: military art. Date: October 1918. Place of creation: United States of America. Dimensions: height: 124.7 cm (49.1 in); width: 211.4 cm (83.2 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Birmingham Museum of Art. George Bellows - The Barricade (1918)
