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In the Park, Light

George Wesley Bellows

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Early in his career, Bellows was known for depicting young street urchins, dockworkers, and boxers, but later he also painted the more affluent classes at polo matches and elegant Central Park picnics, as seen here. In a second version of the print, In the Park, Dark, Bellows made the foliage background dark and indistinct. The lithographs revive a subject he had undertaken in the oil painting A Day in June, 1913 (Detroit Museum of Art).

Caption

George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925). In the Park, Light, 1916. Lithograph on beige, thin, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 19 7/8 x 24 7/8 in. (50.5 x 63.2 cm) Image: 16 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (41 x 53.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Chester Dale, 63.155.11. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

In the Park, Light

Date

1916

Medium

Lithograph on beige, thin, slightly textured wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Sheet: 19 7/8 x 24 7/8 in. (50.5 x 63.2 cm) Image: 16 1/8 x 21 1/8 in. (41 x 53.7 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "Geo. Bellows" lower right margin in pencil

Credit Line

Gift of Chester Dale

Accession Number

63.155.11

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Artists and makers

George Wesley Bellows

31 works in the collection