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"inscription": "In graphite, center, recto: \"Hold Up I\"",
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"inscription": "In graphite, lower right, recto: \"Geo Bellows\"",
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"id": 357204,
"title": "Humor in Prints",
"description": "Humor in Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934).",
"opening_date": "1934-09-13T04:00:00"
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"title": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940",
"description": "Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900\u20131940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).",
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"date": "November 9, 1936",
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"did_you_know": "Their hats\u2014a top hat, and a flat cap, or newsboy\u2014help to distinguish the high society and working-class status of the two main characters in this print.",
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"description": "When the New York Times reviewed this work by George Bellows in 1921, it described it as a \u201csubject interpreted in the spirit of Dickens. With a hint of melodrama, a hint of comedy, and a pinch of realism.\u201d Bellows cast the episode as humorous; a gentleman in a fancy waistcoat and top hat is jumped by a thief with a small handgun and an accomplice emerging from the shadows behind. For such caricatured encounters, Bellows may have looked to the long history of political satire in the popular press. This is the first of two states, or versions, that Bellows made of this print.",
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"biography": "An accomplished athlete, George Bellows (1882\u20131925) 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\u2019s 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\u2019s. In his later years he developed recreational passions for tennis and billiards, which he routinely played with friends. Bellows\u2019s life was cut short at the age of 42, due to complications after his appendix ruptured.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:03:13.348000"
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