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Introducing the Champion, No. 1, Large

1916
(American, 1882–1925)
America, 20th century
lithograph
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1937.494
Catalogue raisonné: Mason 26
Location: not on view
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Due to the popularity of his early boxing paintings such as Stag at Sharkey’s, Bellows was often commissioned by newspapers and magazines to depict sporting events, both actual and fictional. One of the artist’s first boxing prints, Introducing the Champion was inspired by a drawing he made three years earlier to illustrate a short story in American Magazine, which describes an imagined lightweight champion nicknamed Tornado Black. The cocky gloating of this character, who panders to the crowd, provides the impetus for Bellows’s rendering.
Introducing the Champion, No. 1, Large

Introducing the Champion, No. 1, Large

1916

George Bellows

(American, 1882–1925)
America, 20th century

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