GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS | Robin, Portrait of Clifton Webb

Emma S. Bellows (wife of the artist)
[with]H.V. Allison & Co., New York
Twentieth Century Fox Film Studios, 1950
Clifton Webb, 1951 (gift from the above)
Private collection, 1981 (acquired from the above; sold: Christie's, New York, March 25, 2015, lot 103)
Collisart, Cold Spring, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2017

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition, January-February 1957, no. 1, pp. 14, 37, illustrated
Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Portraits by George Bellows, November 4, 1981-January 3, 1982, pp. 26-7, illustrated
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; Dallas, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, The Paintings of George Bellows, February 1992-May 1993, pp. 11, 175-77, illustrated fig. 6

The canvas is lined and the edges are trimmed. There is surface cracking throughout. Under UV: the work retinas an even varnish. There is inpainting to surface cracking and a four inch horizontal line near upper right corner.
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This work is included in the online version of the catalogue raisonné available at www.hvallison.com and will be included in the publication being prepared by Glenn C. Peck.