Art Institute of Chicago

Dance at Insane Asylum

George Wesley Bellows

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

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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