Preliminaries

1916 Image: 40 x 49.6 cm (15 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1936.642

By 1916, the year Bellows created Preliminaries, boxing was legal in New York and had begun attracting audiences beyond its usual working-class, male demographic. Relegating the ensuing match to the background, this print focuses on a group of wealthy spectators who arrive to...

Drawing

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1936.642
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Culture
America
Technique
lithograph
Genre
Print
Department
Prints

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