The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
The Pool Player
1921
(American, 1882–1925)
Platemark: 13 x 25.5 cm (5 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 x 31.4 cm (6 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1936.577
Catalogue raisonné: Mason 83
Location: not on view
Description
A single overhead light illuminates the pool player’s careful concentration and agile pose while casting two rapt companions in shadow. The figure on the left is believed to be Bellows’s self-portrait.- Stag at Sharkey’s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 14-September 18, 2016).The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH (05/14/2016-09/18/2016): “Stag at Sharkey’s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports”The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 16-March 22, 1926).
- {{cite web|title=The Pool Player|url=false|author=George Bellows|year=1921|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1936.577