Cleveland Museum of Art
Solitude
George Bellows
- Date
- 1917
- Medium
- lithograph
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
In addition to leisure and recreation, city parks provided a place where couples could spend time together away from families and crowded apartments. Emphasizing the murky black of the night, George Bellows used tusche, a greasy ink, layered over lithographic crayon to create the mood of this print of park benches full of couples too absorbed in each other to notice anyone around them. A solitary man along the left edge is both physically and psychologically isolated from the others. Bellows often placed observers in his prints to suggest a connection between them and the viewer. The benches in this image are a specific type called the “Central Park settee.”
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