Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett)
George Bellows
1907
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 158 x 87 cm (62 3/16 x 34 1/4 in.) framed: 171.5 x 107 x 8.6 cm (67 1/2 x 42 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1983.1.2
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 ...