Introductions
1921
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 21.59 × 17.78 cm (8 1/2 × 7 in.) sheet: 26.99 × 22.54 cm (10 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.871
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 ...