Study for "Riverfront No. 1"
c. 1915
Medium
conté crayon on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase through a gift of Emily Crane Chadbourne, Charles C. Glover, Jr., and Arthur C. Nash)
Accession Number
2015.19.2612
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 ...