Prayer Meeting, second stone
George Bellows
1916
Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 46.4 x 56.5 cm (18 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.) sheet: 54.6 x 19.7 cm (21 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.8
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 ...