In 1923, six years after his The Shower Bath, Bellows revisited his earlier interest
in the paunchy denizens of the local athletic club. In Business-Men's Bath, Bellows
retained many of the figures of the earlier bath composition, but reversed the images;
instead of having the lean central figure in conversation with the portly gentleman, he
stares directly out at the spectator.
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
