I don't know anything about boxing, I'm just painting two men trying to kill each
other.
-George Bellows
This large lithograph
(18 3/4 x 23 3/4") is an icon of twentieth-century American lithography. The scene
takes place at Tom Sharkey's Club, a private club not far from Bellows' studio. In
order to avoid trouble with the police over illegal sporting events, Sharkey, an
ex-fighter himself, charged dues for "club members" to view the fights held at his
establishment.
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
