George Wesley Bellows

The Picnic

1918

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George Wesley Bellows

The Picnic

George Wesley Bellows

The Picnic

1918

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Unframed: 30 1/8 x 44 1/4 in. (76.5 x 112.4 cm) Framed: 38 1/2 x 52 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. (97.8 x 132.7 x 14 cm)

Credit Line The Peabody Art Collection. Courtesy of the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property of the Maryland State Archives. MSA SC 4680-10-003

Object Number L.1944.72

The National Gallery of Art, "George Bellows," The Metropolitan Museum of Art November 13 2012 - February 18 2013; Royal Academy of Arts London March 16 - June 9 2013.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,"
The Brooklyn Museum of Art October 28 2011 - January 29 2011; Dallas Museum of Art March 4 2012 - May 27 2012;Cleveland Art Museum July 1 2012 - September 16 2012.

David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.

Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester. "George Bellows in Woodstock, 1920-1924". Memorial Art Gallery, April 13 - June 23, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, October 4, 2003 - January 11, 2004; Georgia Museum of Art, February 21 - May 16, 2024, Vero Beach Museum of Art, August 14 - October 31, 2004.

Art Institute of Chicago, "The American Muse", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 3 - May 17, 1959.

Carbone, Teresa A. Silent Pictures:Encounters with a Remade World. "Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties" Edited by Teresa A. Carbone. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc. and Brooklyn Museum, 2011, p. 116, ill. p. 118.

Mark Cole, "A Life Cut Short, 1924," George Bellows, ed. Charles Brock (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2012), 287,296-97.

"Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock", Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 2003, 28, 81.

Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. "From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists." Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 117, ill.