This lithograph reflects the two pleasant summer vacations Bellows and his family took
in Middletown, Rhode Island. While hobnobbing with the rich and famous, Bellows, a
natural athlete himself would have been fascinated by the tennis set. As reflected in
this lithograph, Bellows, with the objective eye of the artist, recognizes a society
more concerned with the way the spectators look and behave than with the game being
played.
