Maud Murray Dale (Mrs. Chester Dale)
George Bellows
1919
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
overall: 101.5 x 85 cm (39 15/16 x 33 7/16 in.) framed: 125.1 x 108.6 x 5.7 cm (49 1/4 x 42 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1944.15.1
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 ...