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Dance at Insane Asylum

George Wesley BellowsLinkedCulture matchlcp-2d2c387fd640

Date: 1907
Medium: Charcoal, with stumping, pen and black ink, brown crayon, and touches of white chalk on ivory wove paper
Culture: United States
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 22800

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Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, George Bellows studied at the New York School of Art, along with Edward Hopper and Rockwell Kent. He became one of the leading realist painters of his time and was also a masterful draftsman. His energetic drawings and lithographs—often rendered on a large scale, as in the examples shown here—suggest a spontaneous approach, though they also reveal his dedication to theoretical studies of proportion. This haunting yet spirited mixed-media drawing served as a study for the lithograph Dance in a Madhouse , created some 10 yeas later.

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Credit line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Provenance: The artist, to Mrs. Emma Bellows, to at least 1936 [Chicago 1936 exh. cat.]. Sold by Frederick Keppel and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1936.