Art Institute of Chicago
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
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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