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Business Men's Class (Business Men's Class, Y.M.C.A.)

Bellows, gifted with a tall, athletic body, was a talented basketball player and semiprofessional baseball player before becoming an artist. Here he shows a comic disdain for a motley group of ungainly businessmen attempting to improve their physiques in a class at the YMCA.

Artist: George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dates: 1916
Dimensions: Sheet: 16 x 23 11/16 in. (40.6 x 60.2 cm) Image: 11 1/2 x 17 1/4 in. (29.2 x 43.8 cm)
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 63.155.10
Edition: 64
Credit Line: Gift of Chester Dale
Image: Overall, 63.155.10_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006

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