Boy in a Blue Coat

George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)

1915

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Unframed: 91.5 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, American Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

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.