Maud Murray Dale (Mrs. Chester Dale)
George Bellows
1919
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
overall: 101.5 x 85 cm (39 15/16 x 33 7/16 in.) framed: 125.1 x 108.6 x 5.7 cm (49 1/4 x 42 3/4 x 2 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CAB
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1944.15.1
About the Artist
George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows was born on August 12, 1882, in Columbus, Ohio, the only child of building contractor George Bellows Sr. and Anna Smith Bellows, with an older half-sister, Laura. A talented athlete who excelled in baseball and basketball at Ohio State University from 1901 to 1904, Bellows illustrated for the school yearbook before rejecting a professional baseball contract to pursue art. In ...