Boy in a Blue Coat
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
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Boy in a Blue Coat

1915
George Bellows (American, 1882–1925) visual detail
ArtistGeorge Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
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Provenance

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Newman Emerson Montross [1849–1932], New York, NY

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[American Galleries, New York, NY, February 8, 1923, lot 50]

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[Ferargil Galleries, New York, NY, through purchase]

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Josephine Pettengill Everett [1866–1937], Cleveland, OH

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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, through bequest in 1938

Source provenance text

Newman Emerson Montross [1849–1932], New York, NY [American Galleries, New York, NY, February 8, 1923, lot 50] [Ferargil Galleries, New York, NY, through purchase] Josephine Pettengill Everett [1866–1937], Cleveland, OH The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, through bequest in 1938

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Exhibitions

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The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). Celebrate Ohio: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition. Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (organizer) (September 27-November 7, 1971). American Paintings 1825 - 1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, OH (organizer) (July 7-November 1, 1979). Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Annual Fall Exhibition of American Painting (12 October-9 November 1915), see The Bulletin of the Rhode Island School of Design (April, 1915, and January 1916), for references to the show. San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1916), Bellows' notebooks indicated that this painting went to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1916, however the Exposition itself, ran from 20 February-4 December 1915; further, this painting is not listed in the catalogue for the 1915 show; however, p. 8 of the Report of the Department of Fine Arts does indicate that from 1 January-1 May 1916, the Department of Fine Arts conducted a post-Exposition exhibition in the Palace of Fine Arts which included both objects in the original 1915 exhibition and additional works. Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, Twelfth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, (1918), cat. no. 6, illus. New York, Montross Gallery, Special Exhibition of Paintings, (1918), cat. no. 1(?). Akron, Akron Art Institute, 40 American Painters: A Survey of American Painting from Colonial to Modern Times (December, 1945), cat. no. 31, illus. Youngstown, OH, The Butler Institute of American Art, Exhibition of Ohio Painters (2-30 April 1967), cat. no. 5.	 Akron, Akron Art Institute, Celebrate Ohio: Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition (27 September-7 November 1971), cat. not numbered, not illus. Coshocton, OH, Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (7 July-1 November 1979), cat. not numbered, not illus. Lakewood, OH, The Kenneth C. Beck Center, American Paintings 1825-1915 from The Cleveland Museum of Art (17 September-13 October 1980), no separate catalogue seems to exist, but it is assumed that it would be similar to the Coshocton catalogue (see above). Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Pioneers: Early 20th Century Art from Midwestern Museums (17 September-1 November 1981), cat. no. 2, illus.

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Sourced Overview Evidence

George Bellows created this work during July 1915 in Ogunquit, Maine. Because of frequent rainy weather, the artist tended to paint indoors, focusing on portraiture. The identity of the sitter in this example remains unknown.

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0 observed sales · 0 comparable sales · 5 structured provenance events · 3 structured exhibitions.

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