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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Dance at Insane Asylum
    George Bellows. Dance at Insane Asylum, 1907. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002401

    Dance at Insane Asylum

    by George Bellows

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed lower right: "Geo Bellows"; inscribed lower left, in ink: "Dance at Insane Asylum"

    Provenance

    The artist, to Mrs. Emma Bellows, to at least 1936 [Chicago 1936 exh. cat.]. Sold by Frederick Keppel and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1936.

    Exhibition history

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Water Color Club, Fifth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, Dec. 2-28, 1907, cat. 725. New York, Frederick Keppel and Company, "Drawings by George W. Bellows," Oct. 1936, checklist no. 14. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings by George Wesley Bellows, lent by Mrs. Emma S. Bellows," Dec. 22, 1936-Jan. 27, 1937, checklist no. 18. New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Modern Drawings," 1944, pp. 57 and 88 (ill.). Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Drawings and Lithographs by George Bellows," 1945, cat. 10. Art Institute of Chicago, "George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints," Jan. 31-Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 63, p. 66 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, pp. 8-9, cat. 2, pl. XXXVI. New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, "Exhibition of American Drawings," Dec. 4-12, 1953, cat. 87. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, "George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition," Jan. 19-Feb. 24, 1957, cat. 69, p. 100 (ill.). Wilmington, Delaware Art Center, "The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910," Jan. 9-Feb. 21, 1960, cat. 4. New York, National Academy of Design, "A Century and a Half of American Art," Oct. 15-Nov. 30, 1975. New York, The American Federation of Arts, "American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present," Sept. 1976-Apr. 1977. Art Institute of Chicago, "Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900-1950s," Jan. 30-May 3, 2010, no cat.

    Publications

    Harper’s Weekly (August 23, 1913) (ill.). Aline Kistler, “Bellows Drawings,” American Magazine of Art, 29:39 (1936), pp. 744-45 (ill.). Jaines W. Lane, “Notes from New York,” Apollo 24, p. 294 (ill.). Ann Brewer, “A First Showing of Some Bellows Drawings,” Art News 35 (1936), p. 16 (ill.). Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection (Lakeside Press, 1938), cat. 102. Peyton Boswell, Geroge Bellows (Crown, 1942), p. 24. Daniel Catton Rich, “Bellows Revalued,” Magazine of Art 39:4 (April 1946), pp. 140 (ill.), 141. I. Moskowitz (editor), Great Drawings of All Time 4 (Shorewood Press, 1962), no. 1017. Charles H. Morgan, Geroge Bellows: Painter of America (Reynal, 1965), p. 309 (ill.). Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), p. 37. Paul Cummings, American Drawings: The Twentieth Century (Viking Press, 1976), p. 59 (ill.). Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 14.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Wesley Bellows / American, 1882-1925
    Date
    1907
    Medium
    Charcoal, with stumping, pen and black ink, brown crayon, and touches of white chalk on ivory wove paper
    Dimensions
    48 × 63 cm (18 15/16 × 24 13/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    charcoal
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1936.223

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