Memories of early student days when Bellows frequented the Y.M.C.A. for exercise and relaxation. It was here that he and Eugene Speicher first met. (Bellows) / After his arrival from Columbus, Ohio in 1904, Bellows lived at the West Side YMCA. It was there that he met Eugene Speicher, another aspiring young artist who was to become his lifelong friend. Always interested in the anatomy of the human body, Bellows often satirized the various types who, while leading a sedentary life, feel compelled to devote a portion of their daily routine to physical self-improvement. (Mason)
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Study for the lithograph of the same title (Mason: M. 20; Bellows: B. 128).
Additional information accompanying item: Signed in lower left corner of image, in ink transferred via monotype "Geo Bellows." Titled on mounting sheet beneath drawn borderline at center, in pencil "Business Men's Class." May be the drawing that appeared in the April 1913 issue of "The Masses," captioned "Superior Brains. The Business men's Class."
Handwritten on item: Original drawing for "Business Men's Class, Y.M.C.A."
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Sold by H.V. Allison Galleries to Albert H. Wiggin, June 1943. Gifted to the Boston Public Library.
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