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
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 ...