Preliminaries
Item Information
- Title:
- Preliminaries
- Title (alt.):
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Preliminaries to the big bout
- Description:
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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" is on the extraordinary presence of affluent women, rather than on the action in the ring. (Mason)
- Artist:
- Bellows, George, 1882-1925
- Name on Item:
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Geo Bellows
- Date:
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1916
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Lithographs
- 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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Boxing
Boxers (Sports)
Sports spectators
Rich people
- Places:
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New York > New York > Manhattan
Madison Square Garden Center
- Extent:
- 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 52 x 64 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d279w294
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from Mason catalogue raisonné.
Alternative title from Bellows catalogue raisonné.
Mason: M. 24; Bellows: B. 21
Additional information accompanying item: Signed on stone in lower left corner of image in pencil "Geo Bellows." Signed beneath image at right, in pencil "Geo Bellows." Titled beneath image at center, in pencil "Preliminaries to the Big Bout." Numbered beneath image at left, in pencil "No 4."
Boston Public Library has a related drawing.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Albert Henry Wiggin
- Notes (date):
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Date from Mason catalogue raisonné.
- 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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1941.1.135
- Identifier:
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06_05_000052
W. 2859 (no longer used)
- Barcode:
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36666003814809
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