The Pool Player (1921): Art, History and Details
The Pool Player at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1921, lithograph. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
The Pool Player (1921) 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:
A single overhead light illuminates the pool player’s careful concentration and agile pose while casting two rapt companions in shadow. The figure on the left is believed to be Bellows’s self-portrait.
Object facts
- Title: The Pool Player
- Date: 1921
- Creator attribution: George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Culture: America
- Type: Print
- Technique: lithograph
- Dimensions: Platemark: 13 x 25.5 cm (5 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 x 31.4 cm (6 3/4 x 12 3/8 in.)
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 1936.577
Collection credit
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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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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