Why it matters
Two boxers fight in the private athletic club across from Bellows's studio, painted with quick, blurred strokes from a low viewpoint among the crowd. Bellows said: 'I don't know anything about boxing, I'm just painting two men trying to kill each other.'
Did you know?
- It was painted in August 1909.
- 'Stags' were outsiders who fought with temporary club memberships.
- It has been in the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1922.
Based on the Wikipedia article Stag at Sharkey's (CC BY-SA 4.0).
