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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.567
People
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
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
  • 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
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
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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

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