Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011181Seated Boy
About the Artwork
The seated youth in this drawing was probably made as a study for one of the many young boys in George Bellows’s lithographs Splinter Beach and River-Front or their related paintings. The inscription “raft” below the figure suggests that the pose was intended for the large raft in the River-Front composition, although a pose with greater similarity appears on the shoreline in the same print. Bellows’s quick sketch captures the wiry, perhaps undernourished physique and the darting eyes of the young man.
Inscriptions
Signed in pencil, lower right: "Geo Bellows (signed)/raft"
Provenance
?-1950: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH December 28, 1950: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
American Drawings: 1900-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982). Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900–1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Date
- c. 1914
- Medium
- black crayon
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 x 20.5 cm (10 x 8 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1950.452
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