George Bellows

signed Geo Bellows (lower left)

34 by 43 ¾ in.

86.4 by 111 cm.

Estate of the artist

Emma S. Bellows, New York (acquired by descent from the above)

Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York

Ella and Charles W. Goodyear, Buffalo (acquired in 1925 and until at least 1938)

Grand Central Art Galleries, New York

IBM International Foundation, New York (acquired from the above in 1943)

Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1995, lot 8 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Boston Art Club, 1916

Cincinnati Art Museum, Twenty-Third Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1916, no. 30, p. 9

Chicago, Carson, Pirie and Scott Gallery, 1917

Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings and of the Permanent Collection, 1917, no. 4, p. 5

New York, Milch Galleries, Paintings, Lithograph, Drawings, and Etchings by George Bellows, 1917

Columbus, Ohio, Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Association of Columbus, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, 1918

New York, National Academy of Design, Ninety-Third Annual Exhibition, 1918, no. 223, p. 13

New York, Milch Galleries, George Bellows, 1918, no. 17, n.p.

Newark Museum, 1918

St. Louis, City Art Museum, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition of Paintings by American Artists, 1918, no. 3, n.p.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Twenty-Fifth Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1918, no. 30, n.p., illustrated

Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-First Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1918-19, no. 17, n.p.

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, 1919 (not in catalogue)

Venice Public Gardens; London, Grafton Galleries and New York, Whitney Studio, Overseas Exhibition of American Paintings, 1920-21, no. 4, n.p. (titled Easter Sunday)

New York, Ralston Galleries, 1921

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition d'un Groupe de peintres Americains, 1921

New York, Milch Galleries, Important Works in Painting and Sculpture by Leading American Artists, 1921, illustrated

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., National Association of Portrait Painters Ninth Annual Exhibition, 1921 (not in catalogue)

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Lithographs by George Wesley Bellows, 1923

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, One Hundred-and-Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1924, no. 318, p. 50

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, 1925, no. 21, p. 26; p. 63, illustrated

New York, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows: 1882-1925, 1926, no. 9, p. 10

Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois siècles d'art aux États-Unis, 1938, no. 6

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries and Cairo, The Royal Palace, 60 Americans Since 1800, 1946-47, no. 34, n.p., illustrated (titled Easter Sunday)

Tampa, Florida State Fair and New York, Binghamton Museum of Fine Art, Public Library, Thirty Americans Since 1860, 1948-51, no. 9, n.p. (titled Easter Sunday)

IBM traveling exhibition, Twenty-Two Painters of the Western Hemisphere, 1951-54

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1961

IBM traveling exhibition, Twenty-two Painters of the Western Hemisphere, 1962-66

IBM traveling exhibition, American Painting: 1900-1950, 1969-72

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Images: Selections from the IBM Collection, 1984

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Selected Works from the IBM Collection, 1985-86

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, Fifty Years of Collecting: Art at IBM, 1989, n.p., illustrated in color

Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art and Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, The Paintings of George Bellows, 1992-93, fig. 51, p. 54, illustrated in color; pp. 55 and 253

West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum; New Jersey, Newark Museum and Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, George Bellows: Love of Winter, 1997-98, no. 38, pl. 26, p. 106; p. 107, illustrated in color; p. 253, illustrated; illustrated in color on the cover

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and London, Royal Academy of Arts, George Bellows, 2012-13, pl. 43, pp. 128-29, illustrated in color (detail); pp. 137-38, 306-8 and 321 note 51; p. 147, illustrated in color

Henry McBride, “Exhibitions at the New York Galleries,” Fine Arts Journal, vol. XXXV, no. 4, April 1917, p. 287, illustrated

Frank Moore Colby, ed., The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress for the Year 1918, New York, 1919, p. 472

Forbes Watson, “The International Exhibition at Pittsburgh,” The Arts, vol. 3, 1923, p. 354

“The Art of George Bellows,” Christian Science Monitor, vol. 16, no. 187, 7 July 1924, p. 11

Ralph Flint, “Bellows and His Art,” International Studio, vol. LXXXI, no. 336, May 1925, pp. 81-82

Emma Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows, New York, 1929, no. 51, n.p., illustrated

Jean Guiffrey, "American Art at the Jeu de Paume 1938," Légion d'honneur: Honneur et Patrie, vol. IX, no. 2, October 1938, p. 111

ARTNews, ed., Art of the Americas: From Before Columbus to the Present Day, New York, 1948, p. 106, illustrated in color (titled Easter Sunday)

“State Department Sends Business-Sponsored Art as U.S. Envoys,” The Art Digest, vol. 21, no. 4, 15 November 1946, p. 8, illustrated (titled Easter Sunday)

Peter Hastings Falk, ed., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, vol. III, Madison, Connecticut, 1989, p. 86

Peter Hastings Falk and Andrea Ansell Bien, eds., The Annual Exhibition Record of the National Academy of Design, 1901-1950, Madison, Connecticut, 1990, p. 74

“The Paintings of George Bellows,” The Magazine of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, vol. 30, no. 2, February 1991, p. 3, illustrated in color

“George Bellows: Brutal Sports and Gentle Portraits,” USA Today, vol. 121, no. 2570, November 1992, p. 43, illustrated

Art & Antiques, vol. 15, 1993, p. 40, illustrated in color

Peter Hastings Falk, ed., Record of the Carnegie Institute’s International Exhibitions, 1896-1996, Madison, Connecticut, 1998, p. 30

Sigrid Ruby, Have We an American Art?: Präsentation und Rezeption amerikanischer Malerei im Westdeutschland und Westeuropa der Nachkriegszeit, Dissertation, University of Bonn, 1999, p. 265

Kelly Devine Thomas, "$27.5 Million: Not an Anomaly," ARTnews, vol. 99, no. 5, May 2000, p. 108

Mary Sayre Haverstock, George Bellows: An Artist in Action, London and New York, 2007, p. 101, illustrated in color

Caroline M. Riley, MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art, Oakland, 2023, pp. 264 and 306 note 14

This work is included in the online version of the catalogue raisonné available at hvallison.com and will be included in the publication being prepared by Glenn C. Peck.