Sketches of Three Female Heads [recto]
George Bellows
1876 to 1900
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Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 28.26 × 45.56 cm (11 1/8 × 17 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1966.4.4.a
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
George Bellows · 1882–1925
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 ...