George Wesley Bellows
The Widow (Eleanor “Fanny” Smith Daggett)
1916
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George Wesley Bellows
The Widow (Eleanor “Fanny” Smith Daggett)
1916
Physical Qualities
Oil on wood panel, Unframed: 40 × 32 in. (101.6 × 81.3 cm.)
Credit Line
W. Clagett Emory Bequest Fund, in Memory of his Parents, William H. Emory of A and Martha B. Emory; and Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1964.46
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase 1964; H.V. Allison & Co., New York; estate of Emma S. Bellows, 1959; Emma S. Bellows, his widow, 1945; estate of the artist
Luxembourg exhibition, Paris (per Margaret C. S. Christman)
Carson, Pierie & Scott, Chicago, 1917 (per Record Book)
Hiller, Tolerton, San Francisco, 1917 (per Record Book)
"George Bellows Exhibition of Lithographs and Paintings," Oakland Museum of Art, September 15-30, 1917
"Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows," Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Association of Columbus, January 30-February 13, 1918, no. 6
"Collection of Paintings Selected from the Leading American Exhibitions of the Season of 1917-1918," The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, July-September 1918, no. 6
"Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows," M. Knoedler & Co., New York, March 31-April 12, 1919, no. 1
"George Bellows," H. V. Allison & Co., New York, May 1-26, 1962, no. 12.
BMA, "American Painting 1900-1930," September 2-October 29, 1978
BMA, "Twentieth Century Painting from the Museum's Collection," March 14-April 5, 1981.
Carson, Pierie & Scott, Chicago, 1917 (per Record Book)
Hiller, Tolerton, San Francisco, 1917 (per Record Book)
"George Bellows Exhibition of Lithographs and Paintings," Oakland Museum of Art, September 15-30, 1917
"Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows," Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Association of Columbus, January 30-February 13, 1918, no. 6
"Collection of Paintings Selected from the Leading American Exhibitions of the Season of 1917-1918," The Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, July-September 1918, no. 6
"Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows," M. Knoedler & Co., New York, March 31-April 12, 1919, no. 1
"George Bellows," H. V. Allison & Co., New York, May 1-26, 1962, no. 12.
BMA, "American Painting 1900-1930," September 2-October 29, 1978
BMA, "Twentieth Century Painting from the Museum's Collection," March 14-April 5, 1981.
"Accessions," "The Art Quarterly," 27:1-2, 1965, p. 124, ill.
Diana F. Johnson, "Portraits by Eakins and Bellows," "The Burlington Magazine," 108:762, 1966, pp. 479-80, ill. p. 481, fig. 53.
K. R. Greenfield, "The Museum: Its First Half Century," "Annual I," Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, ill. p. 38.
"Baltimore Museum of Art News," 29:1-2, 1967, ill. p. 43.
Margaret C. S. Christman, "Portraits by George Bellows," Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981, p. 23.
Marjorie B. Searl and Ronald Netsky, "Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock," Rochester: Memorial Art Gallery, 2003, fig. 16, p. 22, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: upper right, "Geo Bellows" Verso: in blue paint, "The Widow"
Artist
George Wesley Bellows
1881–1924
born Columbus, OH 1882; died New York, NY 1925
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