The Cliff Dwellers

Prints and Drawings

1913

George Wesley Bellows
American, 1882-1925

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: George Wesley Bellows
Title: The Cliff Dwellers
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1913
Medium: Watercolor and pen and brush and black ink, with black crayon, charcoal, and touches of scraping on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: "George Bellows"
Dimensions: 54.2 × 68.8 cm (21 3/8 × 27 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1941.482

Peyton Boswell, George Bellows (Crown, 1942), p. 75 (ill.).
Frederick A. Sweet, “Some Recent Acquisitions in Water Colors,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 36:3 (March 1942), pp. 37-38 (ill.).
Frederick A. Sweet, “George Wesley Bellows,” Design 47:6 (Feb. 1946), p. 8 (ill.).
Frederick A. Sweet, “Bellows 23 Years after Dempsey-Firpo,” Art News 44:19 (Jan. 15, 1946), p. 12 (ill.).
Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), p. 88.
Charles H. Morgan, The Drawings of George Bellows (Borden, 1973), n.p. (ill.).
Charlene S. Engel, Bellows Illustrations of the Masses and Other Magazines and Sources of Lithographs (University of Wisconsin, 1976), pp. 14, 31 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., “American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955,” (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 16.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “This is Our City: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints,” Mar. 11-Apr. 13, 1941, cat. 135.
Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, “George Bellows: Drawings and Lithographs,” Jan. 14-Feb. 12, 1945, cat. 11.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Old and New,” Feb. 1946, cat. 1, pl. XXXVII.
Art Institute of Chicago, “George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” Jan. 31-Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 62, p. 84 (ill.).
New York, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, “Exhibition of American Drawings,” Dec. 4-12, 1953, cat. 78.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, “George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition,” Jan. 19-Feb. 24, 1957, cat. 68, p. 101 (ill.).
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “George Bellows (1882-1925)”, No. 13, 2012-Feb. 18, 2013.

The artist; to Emma Bellows, probably 1925. Harlow, Keppel and Company, by 1941 [New York 1941 exh. cat.]. Sold by H. V. Allison Galleries to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1941.

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