American painter and lithographer, a pupil and leading follower of Robert Henri. An outstanding athlete in his youth and noted for his hearty, outgoing character, Bellows is best known for his boxing scenes. The most famous of them is A Stag at Sharkey's (1907, Cleveland Mus. of Art), remarkable for its vivid sense of movement and energetic, sketchy brushwork (a ‘stag’ was a boxing match held in a private club). Such works rapidly won him a reputation, and in 1909—aged 27—he became the youngest person ever elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design. Bellows took a highly active part in the art life of his day and was one of the organizers of the Armory Show in 1913. After this, his work tended to become less concerned with movement, placing more emphasis on formal balance.