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Both Members of This Club

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Both Members of This Club
ArtistGeorge Bellows Edit this on Wikidata
Year1909
Mediumoil paint, canvas
Dimensions115 cm (45 in) × 160.5 cm (63.2 in)
LocationNational Gallery of Art
Accession No.1944.13.1 Edit this on Wikidata

Both Members of This Club is an oil painting on canvas by the American artist George Bellows. It hangs in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington DC. It dates to 1909 and measures 115 cm × 160.5 cm (45+14 in × 63+316 in).

The Gallery writes, Both Members of This Club was inspired by the fights Bellows attended at Tom Sharkey's Athletic Club in New York. At the time, public boxing matches were illegal in the city. Private organizations like Sharkey's made prospective fighters temporary members of the "club" on the night of the event to circumvent the law."[1]

Bellows painted the work in October 1909, as a follow on to Stag at Sharkey's[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Both Members of This Club". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  2. ^ Doezema, Marianne (1992). George Bellows and Urban America. Yale University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-300-05043-1.