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        "title": "Polo Sketch",
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                    "id": 354980,
                    "title": "The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition",
                    "description": "<i>The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 16-March 22, 1926).",
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                    "title": "Stag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports",
                    "description": "<i>Stag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14-September 18, 2016).",
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                    "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (05/14/2016-09/18/2016): \u201cStag at Sharkey\u2019s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports\u201d",
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        "description": "After witnessing his first polo match, Bellows described his fascination in a letter to his former English professor at Ohio State University: \u201cI\u2019ve been making studies of the wealthy game polo played by the ultra rich. And let me say these ultra rich have nerve tucked under their vest pocket. It\u2019s an Aladdin\u2019s lamp sort of game. You wish to be a hundred yards to your left, you kick your heels\u2014and there you are. . . . The players are nice looking, moral looking. The horses are beautiful. I believe they brush their teeth and bathe them in goat\u2019s milk. It is a great subject to draw.",
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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 <em>Stag at Sharkey\u2019s.</em> 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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