The Actress
George Bellows
1923 - 1924
Medium
lithograph on wove Basingwerk paper
Dimensions
image: 34.2 × 27.7 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 39.4 × 33.4 cm (15 1/2 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of David L. Meyer
Accession Number
2024.138.2
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 ...