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Stag at Sharkey's

1909

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The story

Bellows painted the fight in August 1909 at a private athletic club across from his studio, where outsiders could box on temporary memberships and were called stags. He admitted knowing nothing about boxing and said he was just painting two men trying to kill each other.

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Object details

Title: Stag at Sharkey's
Artist: George Bellows
Date: 1909
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art (1922.1133)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0940
Original image: 3000 × 2243 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

George Bellows. Stag at Sharkey's. 1909. Cleveland Museum of Art (1922.1133). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0940/