Dempsey and Firpo
George Bellows
1923-1924
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 45.7 x 56.8 cm (18 x 22 3/8 in.) sheet: 57.5 x 66 cm (22 5/8 x 26 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1956.6.5
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 ...