A Knockout, 1921

Inscription

lower left in graphite: Bolton Brown - imp-; lower right in graphite: Geo. Bellows E.S.B. [Emma Story Bellows]; lower center in plate: GB.

Provenance

(H. V. Allison & Co., Larchmont, NY); purchased by NGA, 1956.

Exhibition History

1963

American Artists as Print Makers, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1963, no. 20.

2005

Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2005 - 2007, unnumbered catalogue.

2012

George Bellows, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012 - 2013, no. 123.

Bibliography

1927

Bellows, Emma S. George W. Bellows: His Lithographs. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, no. 78.

1977

Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1977, no. 92.

1982

Carmean, E.A., Jr., et al. Bellows: The Boxing Pictures. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982: 37.

1992

Mason, Lauris. The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonné. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1992, pp. 156-57, no. 92, ii/ii.

2005

Mathews, Nancy Mowll., et al. Moving Pictures; American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910. Exh. cat. Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown; Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem; Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University; The Phillips Collection, Washington; 2005-2007. Manchester, 2005: 112, 114 fig. 177.

2012

Brock, Charles, et al. George Bellows. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012-2013. Washington and New York, 2012: no. 123.

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