
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Pool Player
George Bellows
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- lithograph
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A single overhead light illuminates the pool player’s careful concentration and agile pose while casting two rapt companions in shadow. The figure on the left is believed to be Bellows’s self-portrait.
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