Preliminaries to the big bout

Preliminaries to the big bout

Item Information

Title:
Preliminaries to the big bout
Description:
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:
1916
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Genre:
Crayon drawings
Ink drawings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings
Subjects:
Boxing
Boxers (Sports)
Sports spectators
Rich people
Places:
New York > New York > Manhattan
Madison Square Garden Center
Extent:
1 drawing : crayon, ink, and wash on paper ; sheet 54 x 66 cm
Permalink:
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Notes:
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):
Date from material accompanying item.
Notes (citation):
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 #:
1942.1.2
Identifier:
06_05_000013
Barcode:
36666003814627