Introducing Georges Carpentier
Item Information
- Title:
- Introducing Georges Carpentier
- Description:
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Mr. Herbert Bayard Swope, executive editor of the New York World, commissioned the artist to make a drawing for publication, of this international championship fight. (Bellows) / It was the first million dollar gate--more than 80,000 spectators--at "Boyle's Thirty Acres" in jersey City on July 2, 1921. Bellows had been invited by Herbert Bayard Swope, editor of the New York "World" to record the match between the glamorous French world light-heavyweight champion, Georges Carpentier, and Jack Dempsey, the world heavyweight champion. The "introduction" proved to be the best part of the fight for Carpentier; he was knocked out by Dempsey in the fourth round. Dempsey as victor was not popular with the crowd since he had recently been accused of being a draft dodger by the American Legion. (Mason)
- Artist:
- Bellows, George, 1882-1925
- Name on Item:
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Geo Bellows
- Date:
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1921
- Format:
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Drawings/Illustrations
- Genre:
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Crayon 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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Boxers (Sports)
Sports spectators
Salutations
Carpentier, Georges, 1894-1975
Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983
- Places:
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New Jersey > Hudson (county) > Jersey City
- Extent:
- 1 drawing : crayon and wash on card stock ; sheet 55 x 71 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279v83q
- Terms of Use:
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- Notes:
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Title from material accompanying item.
Study for the lithograph of the same title (Mason: M. 98; Bellows: B. 116).
Additional information accompanying item: Signed in lower right "Geo. Bellows."
A related drawing was published in New York World, July 1921.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Sold by H.V. Allison Galleries to Albert H. Wiggin, June 1943. Gifted to the Boston Public Library.
- 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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1943.1.11
- Identifier:
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06_05_000029
- Barcode:
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36666003814619
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