Club Night
George Bellows
1907
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 109.2 x 135 cm (43 x 53 1/8 in.) framed: 127.6 x 153 x 9.5 cm (50 1/4 x 60 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
John Hay Whitney Collection
Accession Number
1982.76.1
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 ...