Dancing Town (The Top of the World)
1922
Medium
black chalk, pen and brush and black ink, and pen and white ink with scratching out over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 54.3 x 44 cm (21 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.) sheet: 71 x 58.4 cm (27 15/16 x 23 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1983.1.79
About the Artist
George Bellows
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 ...