Benediction in Georgia
George Bellows
1916
Medium
lithograph on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 41 × 50.9 cm (16 1/8 × 20 1/16 in.) sheet: 55.5 × 69 cm (21 7/8 × 27 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David L. Meyer
Accession Number
2024.138.1
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 ...