A Knockout

1921

George Bellows

Associated Names
George Bellows

Artist, American, 1882 - 1925

The image displays two boxers in a ring after a match. One boxer is on the ground while the other is crouched beside him. Both boxers' bodies are muscular, and their facial features are partially obscured. They have short, tousled hair and are wearing boxing shorts and gloves. Surrounding the ring are numerous animated spectators leaning over the ropes, some smoking cigars or talking excitedly. The background shows a blurred audience absorbed in the scene.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.74 × 55.25 cm (15 1/4 × 21 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1956.6.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Mason 1992, no. 92, ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q65224891

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