1943.567: Ringside Seats
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.567
- People
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George Wesley Bellows, American (Columbus, OH 1882 - 1925 New York, NY)
- Title
- Ringside Seats
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 1924
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307878
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Graphite, black chalk, pastel and lithographic crayon? with scratchwork and stumping on smooth surfaced multi-ply cream wove paper
- Dimensions
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image: 43.4 x 48.5 cm (17 1/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
actual: 57.8 x 66 cm (22 3/4 x 26 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: black crayon, lower center: Geo Bellows
- inscription: lower margin, graphite: Ring Side Seats - Drawn in 1924
- inscription: verso, graphite: Pub. May 3/24 / Chins of the Fathers / by Jonathan Brooks / ill by Geo Bellows / H26 [written over the H26: 14949]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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George Bellows, 1924, bequest; to Mrs. George Bellows, 1925; [Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., New York, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1938, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
NOTE: Mrs. Bellows used Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., to disperse her husband's artwork after his death.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.567
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Jonathan Brooks, "Chins of the Fathers", Collier's (May 3, 1924), vol. 73, no. 18, repr. pp. 14-15
- Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr., American Drawings, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, NY, 1965), repr. p. 98 as pl. 67
- Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 137, ill.
- The Drawings of George Bellows, Borden Publishing Company (Alhambra, CA, 1973), repr. (n.p.)
- E. A. Carmean, Jr., Bellows: The Boxing Pictures, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1982), pp. 95-96; repr. pl. 86, p. 64
Exhibition History
- American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
Verification Level
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