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Boy in a Blue Coat

George Bellows, 1915

Boy in a Blue Coat by George Bellows
Boy in a Blue Coat by George Bellows, 69 cm × 92 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

69 cm × 92 cm

About the size of a cafe table. You would need 2 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 92 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
92 cm
Width
69 cm
Medium
oil on canvas
Kind
Painting
Made in
America
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
Unframed: 91.5 x 61 cm (36 x 24 in.)
Why this differs from the record
Recorded as 61 cm × 92 cm. Hung to match the photograph.
Credit
Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection

Ask this work

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?
69 cm × 92 cm. About the size of a cafe table. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1915. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Bequest of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection.
How was it made?
Oil on canvas, made in America, America.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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Hangs well beside

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.