A Stag at Sharkey's
George Bellows
1917
Medium
lithograph in black
Dimensions
image: 47.63 × 60.64 cm (18 3/4 × 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 55.56 × 70.17 cm (21 7/8 × 27 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1956.6.13
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George Bellows · 1882–1925
George Wesley Bellows was born on August 12, 1882, in Columbus, Ohio, the only child of building contractor George Bellows Sr. and Anna Smith Bellows, with an older half-sister, Laura. A talented athlete who excelled in baseball and basketball at Ohio State University from 1901 to 1904, Bellows illustrated for the school yearbook before rejecting a professional baseball contract to pursue art. In ...