The Charge
1918
Medium
lithograph in black with chine collé on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 25.08 × 40.96 cm (9 7/8 × 16 1/8 in.) sheet: 28.26 × 43.34 cm (11 1/8 × 17 1/16 in.) support: 37.15 × 55.25 cm (14 5/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection
Accession Number
2015.19.2929
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 ...