THIS EXHIBITION IS NO LONGER ON VIEW AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
Overview: 39 works depicting the popular theme of prizefighting were presented in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of George Bellows. Included were the 6 boxing paintings, 14 drawings, 18 lithographs, and a magazine cover, dating from 1907 to 1924. Many of the works had been seen previously at the National Gallery's Bellows retrospective in 1957.
Organization: The exhibition was organized by John Wilmerding and E.A. Carmean Jr. Gaillard Ravenel and Mark Leithauser designed the exhibition and Gordon Anson designed the lighting.
Image: George Bellows, Club Night, 1907, oil on canvas, John Hay Whitney Collection, 1982.76.1
Attendance: 110805
Catalog: Bellows: The Boxing Pictures, by E.A. Carmean Jr. et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982.
Related Artists
- Bellows, George
- American
- , 1882 - 1925