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A Knockout
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About this work
Although created in 1921, A Knockout is based on a drawing Bellows made nearly 15 years earlier, at a time when boxing was a rough-and-tumble underground sport practiced in back rooms of New York taverns. Here, unruly audience members surge into the ring while a referee restrains an enraged fighter from further injuring his opponent. For reasons unknown, Bellows printed only a few impressions of this composition, and it remains one of his rarest lithographs.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineA Knockout, 1921. George Bellows (American, 1882–1925). Lithograph. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1936.647
