Society Ball [verso]

Society Ball [verso] by George Bellows

Medium

charcoal and pastel on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 54.61 × 61.91 cm (21 1/2 × 24 3/8 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Eugene L. and Marie-Louise Garbáty Fund

Accession Number

1996.39.1.b

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 ...

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