id: 115920
accession number: 1936.626
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.626
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Spiritual Potentate, 1923. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1936.626
title: Spiritual Potentate
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creation date: 1923
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1923
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creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: lithograph
department: Prints
collection: PR - Lithograph
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Mason 142
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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.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Humor in Prints
opening date: 1934-09-13T04:00:00
Humor in Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 13-October 28, 1934).
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