id: 103801 accession number: 1921.909 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.909 updated: 2024-03-26 01:56:47.710000 A Stag at Sharkey's, 1916. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Lithograph; image: 26.7 x 20 cm (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Charles T. Brooks 1921.909 title: A Stag at Sharkey's title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1916 creation date earliest: 1916 creation date latest: 1916 current location: creditline: Gift of Charles T. Brooks copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Mason 46 --- CREATORS * George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) - artist An accomplished athlete, George Bellows (1882–1925) was an especially appropriate artist to address the subject of sports. Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, he played baseball and basketball as a youth, developing sufficient ability to letter in both at Ohio State University. According to some accounts, scouts for the Cincinnati Reds took notice of his shortstop talents. However, Bellows’s first love, art, ultimately intervened, and after his junior year he relocated to New York to study painting. In a remarkably short period he became the leading artist of his generation, a reputation fueled through boxing subjects such as Stag at Sharkey’s. In his later years he developed recreational passions for tennis and billiards, which he routinely played with friends. Bellows’s life was cut short at the age of 42, due to complications after his appendix ruptured. --- measurements: Image: 26.7 x 20 cm (10 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition opening date: 1926-02-16T05:00:00 The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 16-March 22, 1926). title: Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection opening date: 1934-06-05T04:00:00 Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 92937 Stag at Sharkey's, 1909. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Oil on canvas; framed: 110 x 140.5 x 8.5 cm (43 5/16 x 55 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 92 x 122.6 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.1133 relationship: --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 9 (1921): 138-41. page number: Mentioned: p. 138 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136519 Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. page number: Mentioned: p. 18 url: https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n25 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.909/1921.909_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.909/1921.909_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.909/1921.909_full.tif