Lot 36
  • 36

George Wesley Bellows 1882 - 1925

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • George Wesley Bellows
  • Portrait of Mary McKinnon
  • signed on the reverse prior to lining
  • oil on canvas

  • 44 by 34 1/4 in.
  • (111.8 by 87 cm)
  • Painted in September 1922 in Woodstock, New York.

Provenance

Estate of the artist, 1925
Emma S. Bellows (his wife)
Estate of Emma S. Bellows, 1959
H.V. Allison & Co., New York
John J. McDonough, Youngstown, Ohio, 1971 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 1978, lot 51, illustrated)
Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Exhibited

Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, November-December 1923, no. 16 (as Portrait of Mary)
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Museum, The Thirty-first Annual Exhibition of American Art, May-July 1924, no. 10 (as Portrait of Mary)
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Leon Kroll, Eugene F. Savage, Walter Ufer, Paul Bartlett, Edgar S. Cameron, H. Amiard Oberteuffer and George Oberteuffer, December 1924-January 1925, no. 3 (as Portrait of Mary)
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, February-March 1925, no. 10 (as Mary)
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Art Club, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, Eugene Speicher, March 1925, no. 13 (as Portrait of Mary)
New York, H.V. Allison & Co., George Bellows, May 1970, no. 9
New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Fine Art Gallery of San Diego; San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Institute; Raleigh, North Carolina, The North Carolina Museum of Art; A Panorama of American Painting: The John J. McDonough Collection, April 1975-June 1976, no. 2

Literature

The artist's record book B, p. 272
Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows, New York, 1929, illustrated pl. 117

Condition

Good condition, lined, some frame abrasion along upper right edge. Under UV: a few minor dots of retouching, uneven varnish.
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Catalogue Note

Mary McKinnon (Mrs. John De Vries) was a fashion illustrator and a neighbor of the artist in Woodstock.  In 1923, Bellows created a lithograph of this sitter in a similar pose and setting, but in a different set of clothes.