George Wesley Bellows

signed • Geo • Bellows • (upper right)

30¼ by 25¼ in.

76.8 by 64.1 cm.

Richards Gallery, New York

Julia E. Peck, Port Huron, Michigan (acquired from the above by 1915 until at least 1925)

Estate of the above

DuMouchelle Art Galleries Co., Detroit, Michigan, 22 October 1971 (consigned by the above)

M. R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York / Ira Spanierman, Inc., New York (acquired at the above sale)

Terry DeLapp Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired in 1972)

Mr. & Mrs. Will Richeson, Jr., San Marino, California (acquired by 1974 until at least 1977)

Christie’s New York, 23 May 1979, lot 240

Collection of Erving & Joyce Wolf (acquired at the above sale)

New York, National Academy of Design, 1909

New York, National Arts Club, Special Exhibition of Portraits, 1915, no. 23

New York, Whitney-Richards Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by George Bellows, 1915, no. 11

Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1915

Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1920-23 (on extended loan)

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of George Bellows, 1925, no. 5. p. 24, illustrated p. 43

New York, Milch Galleries, 19th. and 20th. Century American Figure Paintings, 1936, no. 3

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Paintings in Los Angeles Collections, 1974 (as Paddy Flannigan - Boy with Torn Shirt and dated circa 1905)

San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, New Installation of the American Galleries, 1977 (as Portrait of Paddy Flanigan)

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art & New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Paintings of George Bellows, 1992, no. 14. p. 185, illustrated p. 184

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution & New York, New York Historical Society, Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, 1995-96, no. 6, fig. 135, pp. 125, 204 & 211, illustrated in color p. 128 

New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of Henri, Luks, Glackens, Bellows and Sloan, 1998-99, no. 41, illustrated in color p. 67 & on the cover

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, 1999

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art & Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, George Bellows (1882-1925), 2012-13, no. 28 (New York), no. 13 (Washington, D.C.), pp. 9, 24 & 50, illustrated in color p. 66

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019-21 (on loan)

Record Book A, p. 52

Emma Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows, New York, 1929, no. 12, illustrated

Peyton Boswell. Jr., George Bellows, New York, 1942, illustrated p. 54

Exh. Cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life. 1885-1915, 1994, fig. 314, p. 303, illustrated in color p. 304

James M. Kenny, "Brief Garland: A Life of George Bellows," Timeline, vol. IX, no. 5-6, December 1992, illustrated in color p. 14

Rebecca Zurier, Picturing the City: Urban Vision and the Ashcan School, Berkeley, California, 2005

Mary Sayre Haverstock, George Bellows: An Artist in Action, London, 2007, pp. 50-52, illustrated in color p. 50

Glenn C. Peck, George Bellows' Catalogue Raisonné, no. 401 (accessed 13 February 2023)