A Stag at Sharkey's
- Medium
- Lithograph on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 47.3 × 60.5 cm (18 5/8 × 23 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53.5 × 67 cm (21 1/8 × 26 7/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
George Bellows’s vigorous paintings, drawings, and lithographs of boxing subjects brought him tremendous acclaim during his lifetime and remain among his best-known images. In these works, the artist explored the theatricality of this modern subject, placing us so close to the action that we become participants in the tense, noisy spectacle.
