Drawings & Watercolours
The Hag and the Young Man
Drawing
Details
- Author / creator
- George Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
- Object type
- Drawing
- Date or period
- probably 1922
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 45.6 × 36.8 cm; Sheet: 58.6 × 54 cm
- Place of origin
- America
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1937
- Paper / support
- Wove paper
About this object
The Hag and the Young Man was one of 15 drawings Bellows made to illustrate The Wind Bloweth, a story by Donn Byrne set in Ireland. This illustration was reproduced on page 96 of the May 1922 issue of The Century Magazine. For some reason, however, this illustration was not used when the novel was reprinted as a book later in 1922. Bellows's interest in Irish subjects was probably sparked by his friendship with the Irish painter John Butler Yeats (1839–1922).
Materials and technique
Black lithographic crayon (rubbed in sky)
Signature and marks
signed, lower center, in black crayon: Geo Bellows; lower center, in graphite: THE HAG AND THE YOUNG MAN; lower center, in graphite: -5- / 85 screen H.L.; recto upper right, in green pencil: Box 39-39 [sideways]
