id: 116960 accession number: 1937.513 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.513 updated: 2025-03-03 21:53:30.981000 The Eve of Victory, 1918. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Charcoal and graphite; image: 58.4 x 48.7 cm (23 x 19 3/16 in.); sheet: 60.7 x 49.5 cm (23 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. 1937.513 title: The Eve of Victory title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1918 creation date earliest: 1918 creation date latest: 1918 current location: creditline: Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr. copyright: --- culture: America technique: charcoal and graphite department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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: 58.4 x 48.7 cm (23 x 19 3/16 in.); Sheet: 60.7 x 49.5 cm (23 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed in pencil, lower right corner: "Geo. Bellows for Red" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-02-07T05:00:00 Watercolors and Drawings form the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-28, 1939). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1940-07-11T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940). 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). title: American Drawings: 1900-1930 opening date: 1982-09-07T04:00:00 American Drawings: 1900-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Marie Sterner Gallery, New York, NY) date: ?-1937 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: August 23, 1937 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: None None relationship: study for --- CITATIONS Bellows, George, and Emma S. Bellows. The Paintings of George Bellows. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1929. page number: p. 79 url: "Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1937." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 2 (1938) page number: p. 21 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137909. Francis, Henry. "The Hanna Collection of Lithographs by George Wesley Bellows." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 2, pt. 1 (February 1938): 24-25. page number: Mentioned: p. 24 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137900 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.513/1937.513_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.513/1937.513_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1937.513/1937.513_full.tif