The scene is at "Petipas," a little French restaurant well over on West 29th Street,
New York City. Here artists and writers like to gather at the table of the old Irish
portraitist John Butler Yeats, father of William B. Yeats, the poet, and Jack Yeats,
Dublin artist. Mr. Yeats, although well on in the seventies, was a delightful
conversationalist, a wit, and a great lover of beauty. There was always the spirit of
youth about his table.
-Emma Story Bellows, 1927
Artists' Evening was one of George Bellows' first lithographs. We see Bellows and his
cronies at one of their favorite watering holes. The focus of the busy composition is
the standing figures at the right. Robert Henri, at the far right, converses with the
white-bearded Irish portraitist John Butler Yeats while Bellows looks on.
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
