Sketches of Heads, Including One of Chester Dale
George Bellows
1876 to 1900
Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.94 × 45.56 cm (11 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1966.4.3
About the Artist
George Bellows
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 ...