Art, literature & history
Dancing Town (The Top of the World)
1922
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk, pen and brush and black ink, and pen and white ink with scratching out over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 54.3 x 44 cm (21 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.) sheet: 71 x 58.4 cm (27 15/16 x 23 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1983.1.79
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
George Bellows. Dancing Town (The Top of the World). George Bellows; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Bellows,_Dancing_Town_(The_Top_of_the_World),_1922,_NGA_61429.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Dancing Town (The Top of the World) — George Bellows. 1922.
Medium: black chalk, pen and brush and black ink, and pen and white ink with scratching out over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 54.3 x 44 cm (21 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.) sheet: 71 x 58.4 cm (27 15/16 x 23 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1983.1.79. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.