George Bellows, Seated Boy
Hanna Jr., 1950.452 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
George Bellows

Seated Boy

c. 1914

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
black crayon
Dimensions
25.4 × 20.5 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-209746

The seated youth in this drawing was probably made as a study for one of the many young boys in George Bellows’s lithographs Splinter Beach and River-Front or their related paintings. The inscription “raft” below the figure suggests that the pose was intended for the large raft in the River-Front composition, although a pose with greater similarity appears on the shoreline in the same print. Bellows’s quick sketch captures the wiry, perhaps undernourished physique and the darting eyes of the young man.

Provenance

Hanna Jr., 1950.452

Registry history

  • c. 1914 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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