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George Bellows

Business Men's Class

1916
lithograph

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The painter George Bellows resided at the West Side YMCA, where this scene takes place, which had 300 beds for men relocating to New York City.

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