id: 115876 accession number: 1936.587 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.587 updated: 2022-01-07 22:43:17.541000 Spring, Central Park, 1921. George Bellows (American, 1882-1925). Lithograph; platemark: 21.4 x 17.6 cm (8 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.); sheet: 28.2 x 23.9 cm (11 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1936.587 title: Spring, Central Park title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1921 creation date earliest: 1921 creation date latest: 1921 current location: creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: lithograph department: Prints collection: PR - Lithograph type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Mason 90 --- 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: Platemark: 21.4 x 17.6 cm (8 7/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 28.2 x 23.9 cm (11 1/8 x 9 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: George Bellows Prints: Centennial Exhibition opening date: 1982-09-07T04:00:00 George Bellows Prints: Centennial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982). title: Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940 opening date: 2021-07-18T04:00:00 Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: These fashionably dressed young women are sporting fur muffs over their hands, whose large size denotes them as luxury items. digital description: Within the city’s many parks, people from different social classes could mingle and observe one another. Both the men and women in this print are dressed in fashionable attire, and yet it remains unclear if the groups are of the same social class. By 1921, clothing mimicking couture fashions could be purchased off the rack, and even working-class men could buy the “white collars” associated with businessmen. The two ladies appear unaffected by the men’s laughter and backward glances; unaccompanied, and apparently absorbed in conversation, they epitomized the increasing independence of young urban women. wall description: Within the city’s many parks, people from different social classes could mingle and observe one another. Both the men and women in this print are dressed in fashionable attire, and yet it remains unclear if the groups are of the same social class. By 1921, clothing mimicking couture fashions could be purchased off the rack, and even working-class men could buy the “white collars” associated with businessmen. The two ladies appear unaffected by the men’s laughter and backward glances; unaccompanied, and apparently absorbed in conversation, they epitomized the increasing independence of young urban women. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES