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.