Preliminaries to the big bout
Item Information
- Title:
- Preliminaries to the big bout
- Description:
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For the first time in New York prize-fight history, many fashionable women appeared in the audience. (Bellows) / Society attends a big fight at Madison Square Garden, New York. -GB Though considered one of the prize fight group, the emphasis in "Preliminaries to the Big Bout" is on the extraordinary presence of affluent women, rather than on the action in the ring. (Mason)
- Artist:
- Bellows, George, 1882-1925
- Date:
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1916
- Format:
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Drawings/Illustrations
- Genre:
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Crayon drawings
Ink drawings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Boxing
Boxers (Sports)
Sports spectators
Rich people
- Places:
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New York > New York > Manhattan
Madison Square Garden Center
- Extent:
- 1 drawing : crayon, ink, and wash on paper ; sheet 54 x 66 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279v51f
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from material accompanying item.
Study for the lithograph titled, "Preliminaries" (Mason: M. 24; Bellows: B. 21).
Additional information accompanying item: Not signed. No identification.
- Notes (date):
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Date from material accompanying item.
- Notes (citation):
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Mason, Lauris. "The lithographs of George Bellows : a catalogue raisonné." KTO Press, 1977, Millwood, N.Y.
Bellows, Emma. "George W. Bellows : his lithographs." A. A. Knopf, 1927, New York.
- Accession #:
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1942.1.2
- Identifier:
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06_05_000013
- Barcode:
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36666003814627
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