Stag at Sharkey's
1909
George Bellows
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
American Painting and Sculpture
Stag at Sharkey's, 1909. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Oil on canvas; framed: 110 x 140.5 x 8.5 cm (43 5/16 x 55 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 92 x 122.6 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1922.1133 George Bellows was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University where he played baseball and basketball.
- Maker/Artist
- Bellows, George
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 110 x 140.5 x 8.5 cm (43 5/16 x 55 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 92 x 122.6 cm (36 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed upper left: Geo Bellows, / Copyrighted 190[9]; inscribed on back: Geo Bellows / 146 E. 19th St. N.Y. / "Club Night" / 67.
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1922.1133
- Credit Line
- Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
- Exhibitions
- Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, The George Wesley Bellows Memorial Exhibition, The George Bellows Exhibition, Olympic Competition and Exhibition of Art, American Painting & Sculpture 1862-1932, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, A Loan Exhibition of American Paintings Since 1900, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today, Trois Siècles d'art aux Etats-Unis, Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held During the Period of the New York World's Fair, An Exhibition of Great Paintings in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross and of Small Pictures by Members of The Ontario Society of Artists, The Silver Jubilee Exhibition, Sport in American Art, George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, American Paintings: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day, Sport in Art, The Ring and the Glove, Milestones of American Painting in Our Century, Aspects of New York City Life, 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Exhibition of Sporting Art, Art: The International Language, George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition, Paintings by George Bellows, Four Centuries of American Art, 200 Years of American Painting, Triumph of Realism: An Exhibition of European and American Realist Paintings 1850-1910, The Painters' America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976, George Wesley Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Bellows: The Boxing Pictures, The Paintings of George Bellows, Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part 1: 1900-1950), George Bellows (1882-1925), George Bellows and the American Experience, Stag at Sharkey’s: George Bellows and the Art of Sports, Columbus, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, The George Bellows Exhibition (22 January-1 March 1931), see Bulletin of The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (January, 1931), vol. 1, no. 1, cat. no. 269, illus. p. I, 15.<br>Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture (1 June-1 November 1933), illus. cat. no. 434, listed p. 60., Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Official Art Exhibit of The Great Lakes Exposition (26 June-4 October 1936), New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Realists, 1900-1914 (9 February-5 March 1937), cat. no. 8, illus., listed p. 12., Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum, Art in the United States: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, Crafts (20 June-13 September 1942), illus., Buffalo, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Sport in Art (24 January-22 February 1948), no. 5., Andover, MA, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, The Ring and the Glove (17 September-14 November 1948), see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 76: the exhibition originated at the Museum of the City of New York, Stag was only shown at Addison and did not appear in the catalogue., Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Milestones of American Painting in Our Century (20 January-1 March 1949); traveled to: Montreal, Art Association of Montreal (15 March-15 April 1949); Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (5 May-25 June 1949); San Francisco, M. H. de Young Museum (10 July-25 August 1949); Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum (7 September-16 October 1949); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (3 November-18 December 1949); cat. no. 3, listed p. 29, pp. 38-39, illus. p. 39., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art; traveled to: Louisville, J. B. Speed Memorial Gallery; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Musuem; Buffalo, Albright Gallery; Montreal, Art Association of Montreal; Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art; notes that the exhibition toured from 1 January-31 December, but does not give specific dates., New York, The Century Association, Aspects of New York City Life (1 March-30 April 1950), listed in catalogue., New York, The Century Association, Exhibition of Sporting Art (13 January-28 March 1954), listed in catalogue., Columbus, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Paintings by George Bellows (21 March-21 April 1957), cat. no. 11, illus. front cover., Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Triumph of Realism: An Exhibition of European and American Realist Paintings 1850-1910 (3 October-19 November 1967), see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 76: not in catalogue and did not go on tour., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Painters' America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910 (20 September-10 November 1974); traveled to: Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts (5 December 1974-19 January 1975); Oakland, The Oakland Museum (10 February-30 March 1975), cat. no. 6, illus. p. 132, fig. 154., Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776-1976 (6 March-11 April 1976); traveled to: Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts (5 May-13 June 1976); Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art (4 July-15 August 1976); Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art (8 September-10 October 1976); cat. no. 38, illus., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Bellows: The Boxing Pictures (5 September-2 January 1983), illus. cat. no. 2, plate 4, also included E. A. Carmean, Jr.'s essay "Bellows: The Boxing Paintings," pp. 27-47, illus. in article p. 32, fig. 28; listed p. 74 with small illus., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Paintings of George Bellows (16 February-10 May 1992); traveled to: New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (5 June-30 August 1992); Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art (11 October 1992-3 January 1993); Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (20 February-9 May 1993); illus. figs. 16, 17 in Michael Quick's essay "Technique and Theory: The Evolution of George Bellows' Painting Style," and fig. 9 in Marianne Doezema's "The 'Real' New York;" cat. not numbered., Washington, D. C., National Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1897-1917 (17 November 1995-17 March 1996), illus. fig. 179, p. 164, also included pp. 46-48, 81-88, 156-158, 163-171, 208-210, 215-217, 220, 223. (Not in CMA library: OCLC 921076645), New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-1950 (23 April-22 August 1999), The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/21/2005 - 09/11/2005); "CMA Highlights", National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (6/10/2012 - 10/8/2012),Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (11/13/2012 - 2/18/2013), and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (3/16/2013): "George Bellows (1882-1925)", ex. cat. no. 17, p, 82, detail on cover and inside cover. (Not in CMA library: OCLC 801141298), Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The One Hundred and Fifth Annual Exhibition of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (23 January-20 March 1910), cat. no. 323, listed p. 37 as Club Night., New York, Galleries 29-31 West Thirty-Fifth St., Exhibition of Independent Artists (1-27 April 1910), cat. no 20 as Club Night., New York, Madison Gallery, (early 1911), see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 75., Syracuse, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Summer Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists (10 May-1 October 1911), no. 1 as Club Night; see Bulletin of Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts (October, 1911., Chicago, Marshall Filed (1911), see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 75., Curtis Studios (1911), see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 75., Cedar Rapids, IA, The Cedar Rapids Art Association, Art Gallery, Public Library, Iowa, Fifth Annual Art Exhibition (5-14 February 1913), no. 2., Rochester, NY, Rochester Industrial Exposition (7-19 September 1914), no. 6 as Club Night; see Bellows: The Boxing Pictures p. 75., Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George Bellows (10 December 1914-3 January 1915), no. 16 as Club Night; see Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago (1 January 1915), vol. IX, no. 1, p. 2-4, 8., Detroit, Detroit Museum of Art, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows (6-29 January 1915), no. 16 as Club Night; see Bulletin of The Detroit Museum of Art (January, 1915), vol. IX, no. 1, pp. 2, 4., Los Angeles, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art, Paintings by George Bellows (7-28 February 1915), no. 16 as Club Night., Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Paintings by Lester D. Boronda; Paintings by George Bellows (4-31 May 1915), no. 37 as Club Night; see Bulletin of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (May, 1915), vol. IV, no. 5, p. 46., Muskegon, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, Exhibition of Oil Paintings by George Bellows (9 June-August 1915), as Club Night., Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, New York City (5-26 September 1915), no. 13 as Club Night., Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Special Exhibition of Paintings by Mr. George Bellows (October, 1915), no. 4 as Club Night., New York, Sponsored by The Junior Art Patrons of America, Fine Arts Building, First Retrospective Exhibition of American Art (7-21 May 1921), cat. no. 10, listed p. 13, not illus.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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