The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Solitude
1917
(American, 1882–1925)
Platemark: 43.3 x 39 cm (17 1/16 x 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 60.8 x 54.7 cm (23 15/16 x 21 9/16 in.)
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. 1936.580
Catalogue raisonné: Mason 37
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The benches in this image are a specific type called the “Central Park settee.”Description
In addition to leisure and recreation, city parks provided a place where couples could spend time together away from families and crowded apartments. Emphasizing the murky black of the night, George Bellows used tusche, a greasy ink, layered over lithographic crayon to create the mood of this print of park benches full of couples too absorbed in each other to notice anyone around them. A solitary man along the left edge is both physically and psychologically isolated from the others. Bellows often placed observers in his prints to suggest a connection between them and the viewer.- Peters, Emily J. “People Watching: Curator Emily Peters introduces the upcoming show featuring artists of the early 20th-century Ashcan School.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 27-29. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 28.
- Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).
- {{cite web|title=Solitude|url=false|author=George Bellows|year=1917|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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