The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
Seated Boy
c. 1914
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Bellows made several compositions of boys swimming and lounging on the banks of the East River in New York City, based on studies such as this one.Description
The seated youth in this drawing was probably made as a study for one of the many young boys in George Bellows’s lithographs Splinter Beach and River-Front or their related paintings. The inscription “raft” below the figure suggests that the pose was intended for the large raft in the River-Front composition, although a pose with greater similarity appears on the shoreline in the same print. Bellows’s quick sketch captures the wiry, perhaps undernourished physique and the darting eyes of the young man.- ?-1950Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OHDecember 28, 1950The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Ashcan School Prints and the American City, 1900-1940. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 18-December 26, 2021).American Drawings: 1900-1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7-October 31, 1982).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.452