
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002401Dance at Insane Asylum
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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