The Hag and the Young Man (probably 1922): Art, History and Details

The Hag and the Young Man (probably 1922) 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:

The Hag and the Young Man was one of 15 drawings Bellows made to illustrate The Wind Bloweth, a story by Donn Byrne set in Ireland. This illustration was reproduced on page 96 of the May 1922 issue of The Century Magazine. For some reason, however, this illustration was not used when the novel was reprinted as a book later in 1922. Bellows's interest in Irish subjects was probably sparked by his friendship with the Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839–1922).

Object facts

• Title: The Hag and the Young Man
• Date: probably 1922
• Creator attribution: George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: black lithographic crayon (rubbed in sky)
• Dimensions: Image: 45.6 x 36.8 cm (17 15/16 x 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 58.6 x 54 cm (23 1/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 20th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1937.512

Collection credit

Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Holland, J. G., and Richard Watson Gilder. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. New York: Scribner & Co.; The Century Co, 1870.
• Francis, Henry. "The Hanna Collection of Lithographs by George Wesley Bellows." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 2, pt. 1 (February 1938): 24-25.

View the collection record

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