English: Flickr data on 2011-08-02:

File name: 06_05_000006

Accession no.: 1943.1.17

Title: Night at Petipas

Alternative title: Artists' Evening, Petipas

Creator/Contributor: Bellows, George, 1882-1925 (artist)

Date created: 1914

Physical description: 1 drawing : crayon and graphite on cream wove paper, mounted on paper faced, two ply woodpulp board ; 8 9/16 x 12 1/8 in.

Genre: Drawings

Notes: Signed "Geo Bellows"; Lithograph based on this drawing was published in The Masses as "At Petitpa's," July 1916.

Provenance: Sold by H.V. Allison Galleries to Albert H. Wiggin in June 1943 as "Artists' Evening, Petipas." Gifted to the Boston Public Library.

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions

With consideration of a description of the depicted scenery this print is possibly mirrored:

An example of the social life that Bellows experienced while living in New York, Artists’ Evening takes place at Petitpas, a popular hangout for artists and writers in this period. Represented are the artist and raconteur John Butler Yeats (with the beard), artist and Bellows’ teacher Robert Henri (standing furthest to the right), Henri’s wife Marjorie (at the table on the left, shown drawing), George Bellows himself (between Yeats and Henri), and Bellows’ wife Emma (in the center, facing the viewer).

Bellows uses contrast of value and enough detail to ensure recognition of his peers, but not of the people in the background. The sketchy quality of line is reminiscent of Henri’s teachings of the importance of quick illustration: “gesture expresses…the states of life.”[1]