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Both Members of This Club
Original price was: $599.00.$299.00Current price is: $299.00.
Artist: George Bellows
Bring the raw energy of Both Members of This Club by George Bellows into a room as a hand-painted oil reproduction, its ring light and brushwork rebuilt in real paint on canvas.
Description
Description
In 1907, illegal boxing clubs operated in back rooms across New York, staging bouts for members only so as to dodge the citywy laws against prizefighting. George Bellows, newly arrived in the city and hungry for subjects with grit, went to one of these clubs and came away with a scene that would define his early reputation: two fighters locked in the ring under a hard electric light, watched by a crowd whose faces read as sharply as the punches being thrown.
About Both Members of This Club
The composition presses the boxers into the centre of the canvas, their bodies twisted against each other in a moment of collision rather than pose. Bellows builds the ring rope, the raking overhead light, and the huddled spectators into a single dense structure, so the eye moves from the violence at the centre outward to the men who paid to watch it. The paint itself carries the energy: broad, loaded strokes describe muscle and shadow, and the palette stays close to browns, flesh tones, and the cold white of the spotlight, with only occasional sparks of red picking out blood or tension in a face.
This painting belongs to the period when Bellows was moving away from the darker tonal habits of his teacher Robert Henri and finding a rawer, more physical way of putting a scene together. The lighting owes something to seventeenth century tenebrism, but the subject is entirely of its moment, drawn from the underground fight culture of a city Bellows was still learning to see. Few American paintings of the period commit as fully to the friction between bodies in motion and the crowd feeding on it, which is part of why this remains a famous painting in the story of American Realism.
The hand-painted reproduction
ByMuseum artists paint each order as an oil painting reproduction, working from the original palette and rebuilding the scene stroke by stroke rather than printing it. The painter matches the browns and flesh tones by eye, lays the paint thickly where Bellows loaded his brush, and lets the surface carry the same ridges and passages of impasto that give the ring scene its physical weight. What arrives is a canvas with genuine depth to its paint, not a flat reproduction of one.
- Hand-painted in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes
- Gallery-ready presentation
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Each ByMuseum artwork is a hand-painted oil painting reproduction created by trained artists on high-quality cotton canvas. Every piece is reviewed, finished, and packed according to the framing option you select.
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Unframed — Rolled in Tube
Your artwork is painted on premium cotton canvas, then shipped safely rolled in a rigid tube with extra blank canvas border — ready for stretching or framing locally.
Framed — Ready to Hang
Select a handcrafted frame and we’ll deliver your painting fully assembled, protected, and ready to hang.
For safe shipping, framing is available up to a maximum size. Larger sizes will automatically disable the frame option.
Stretched Canvas
Choose “Stretched” to receive your canvas mounted on wooden stretcher bars — perfect if you’ll frame it later or display it as-is.
Gallery Wrap
Gallery Wrap is a deeper, 1.5" style stretcher. The canvas wraps around the sides and is stapled on the back for a clean, modern, frameless look.
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We ship with UPS, FedEx, or DHL straight to your door. You’ll receive a tracking number as soon as your order leaves our studio. Typical delivery is 5 to 7 days after dispatch; large, framed, or stretched pieces may take longer depending on the safest shipping route.
Unframed canvases are protected with a film, carefully rolled, and secured inside a rigid shipping tube.
Stretched, Gallery Wrapped, and Framed paintings are wrapped, cushioned with foam protection, and boxed for safe transit.
