Seated Boy
George Bellows · c. 1914 · Cleveland Museum of Art
What did you think?
Save this work’s image and museum information on this device to read without a connection.
Guide
Adjust the guideNew to it · Medium
Nobody has listened to this guide yet. Making it takes about twenty seconds, and after that anyone can hear it straight away.
From the museum
The seated youth in this drawing was probably made as a study for one of the many young boys in George Bellows’s lithographs Splinter Beach and River-Front or their related paintings. The inscription “raft” below the figure suggests that the pose was intended for the large raft in the River-Front composition, although a pose with greater similarity appears on the shoreline in the same print. Bellows’s quick sketch captures the wiry, perhaps undernourished physique and the darting eyes of the young man. Bellows made several compositions of boys swimming and lounging on the banks of the East River in New York City, based on studies such as this one.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
Ask about this work
Ask in your own words. The answer comes from what the museum has written about the work, and says so when that does not hold it.
Details
- Maker
- George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Date
- c. 1914
- Medium
- black crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- America
- Held by
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · Not on view
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Image: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0
