Cleveland Museum of Art
A Knockout
George BellowsLinkedCulture matchlcp-c203429089d5
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- lithograph
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 115943
Although created in 1921, A Knockout is based on a drawing Bellows made nearly 15 years earlier, at a time when boxing was a rough-and-tumble underground sport practiced in back rooms of New York taverns. Here, unruly audience members surge into the ring while a referee restrains an enraged fighter from further injuring his opponent. For reasons unknown, Bellows printed only a few impressions of this composition, and it remains one of his rarest lithographs.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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