The Pool Player
George Bellows · 1921 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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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.
The museum’s own description, in English. Licence: CC0
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Details
- Maker
- George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Date
- 1921
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- Platemark: 13 x 25.5 cm (5 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 x 31.4 cm (6 3/4 x 12 3/8 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
