Art, literature & history
Tennis
1920
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 46.7 x 50.7 cm (18 3/8 x 19 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1937.508
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Bellows. Tennis. George Bellows; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Tennis — George Bellows. 1920.
Medium: lithograph. Dimensions: Image: 46.7 x 50.7 cm (18 3/8 x 19 15/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
During the late 1910s, while summer vacationing with his family in the small town of Middletown, Rhode Island, Bellows took time to attend tennis matches hosted nearby at the Newport Casino, a mecca for high-society locals and visitors. In two resultant lithographs, Tennis and The Tournament, greater emphasis is placed on the fashionable spectators assembled to watch the matches than on the sporting activity itself. Bellows appears to imply that at such elite gatherings, audiences were present not only to see, but to be seen.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.