Seated Female Nude (Emma Story Bellows) (after 1910): Art, History and Details
Seated Female Nude (Emma Story Bellows) at the Cleveland Museum of Art: after 1910, black lithographic crayon with traces of stylus (above head). Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Seated Female Nude (Emma Story Bellows) (after 1910) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is George Bellows (American, 1882–1925).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Bellows achieved fame as a young man for his powerful boxing scenes and images of urban life, but he also produced sensitive drawings and paintings of women. Bellows married Emma Story in 1910.
Object facts
- Title: Seated Female Nude (Emma Story Bellows)
- Date: after 1910
- Creator attribution: George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Culture: America
- Type: Drawing
- Technique: black lithographic crayon with traces of stylus (above head)
- Dimensions: Sheet: 25.4 x 24.6 cm (10 x 9 11/16 in.)
- Collection: DR - American 20th Century
- Department: Drawings
- Accession number: 1950.453
Collection credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
View the collection record
See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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